towns-Towns-end Lane turning down to the Thames Then is Queen-hithe a large receptacle for Ships Lighters Barges and such other Vessels Touching the Antiquity and use of this Gate and Hithe first I find that the same belonged to one named Edred and was then called Edreds Hith which since falling into the hands of King Stephen it was by his Charter confirmed to William de Ypre the Farm thereof in Fee and in Heritage William de Ypre gave it unto the Prior and Covent of the Holy Trinity within Ealdgate This Edreds Hith after the foresaid Grant came again to the Kings hands by what means I have not read but it pertained unto the Queen and therefore was called Ripa Reginae the Queens Bank or Queens-Hith and great profit thereof was made to her use as may appear by this which followeth King Henry the third in the ninth of his Reign commanded the Constables of the Tower of London to arrest the Ships of the Cinque-Ports on the River of Thames and to compell them to bring their Corn to no other place but to the Queens Hith only In the eleaventh of his Reign he charged the said Constable to distrain all Fish offered to be sold in any place of this City but at the Queens Hith Moreover in the eight and twentieth of his Reign an Inquisition was made before William of Yorke and the Provost of Beverley Henry of Bath and Hierome of Caxton Justices Itinerantes sitting in the Tower of London touching the Customs of Queen-hith observed in the year last before the Wars between the King and his Father and the Barons of England and of old Customs of other times and what Customs had been changed at what time the Tax and Payment of all things coming thither and between VVoore-path and Anede Hith were found and seized according to the old Order as well Corne and Fish as of other things All which Customes were as well to be observed in the part of Down-gate as in Queen-Hith for the Kings use when also it was found that the Corn arriving between the Gate of Guild-Hall of the Merchants of Colleyne and the Soke of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for he had a House near unto the Black-Fryers was not to be measured by any other quarter than by that of the Queens Soke Next adjoyning to this Queen-hith on the West side thereof is Salt-Wharf named of Salt taken up measured and sold there The next is Stew Lane of a Stew or Hot-house there kept After that is Timber-Hith or Timber street so called of Timber or Boards there taken up and wharsed it is in the Parish of Saint Mary Sommers Hith as we read in the fifty six of Henry the third and in the ninth of Edward the second Then is Brookes Wharfe and Broken Wharfe a Water-gate or Key so called of being broken and fallen down into the Thames By this Broken-VVharfe remaineth one large old building of Stone with Arched Gates which Messuage as we finde in the Reign of Henry the third the forty three year pertained unto Hugh de Bigot and in the eleaventh of Edward the third to Thomas Brotherton the Kings Brother Earle of Norfolke Marshall of England in the eleventh of Henry the sixth to Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolk c. Within the Gate of this House now belonging to the City of London is lately to wit in the year 1594. and 1595 builded one large House of great height called an Engine made by Bevis Bulmar Gentleman for the conveying and forcing of Thames water to serve in the middle and West parts of the City the ancient great Hall of this Messuage is yet standing and pertaining to a great Brew-House for Beere West from this is Trigge Lane going down to the Thames Next is called Bosse-Lane of a Bosse of water like unto that of Belingsgate there placed by the Executors of Richard Whittington Then is one great Messuage sometime belonging to the Abbots of Chartsey in Surrey and was their Inne wherein they were lodged when they repaired to the City it is now called Sandie House by what reason we have not heard some think the Lord Sands hath been lodged there Of the Twentie fourth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Castle-Baynard Ward THen next is Castle Baynard Ward so named of an old Castle there This Ward beginneth in the East on the Thames side at an House called Huntington House and runneth West by Pauls Wharfe by Baynards Castle Puddle Wharfe and by the South side of Black-Fryers Then turning by the East Wall of the said Fryers to the South-West end of Creed Lane then on the North side of Thames street over against Huntington House by St. Peters Church and Lane called Peter Hill along till over against Puddle Wharfe and then North up by the great Wardrobe to the West end of Carter Lane Then up Creed Lane Ave Mary Lane and a piece of Pater noster Row to the Sign of the Golden Lion and back again up Warwick Lane all the East side thereof to the Sign of the Crown by Newgate-Market and this is the farthest North part of this Ward Then out of Thames street be Lanes ascending North to Knight-Riders street The first is Peters Hill Lane all of that Ward two Houses excepted adjoyning to St. Peters Church The next is Pauls Wharfe Hill which thwarting Knight-Riders street and Carter Lane goeth up to the South Chain of Pauls Church-yard Then is Adle-street over against the West part of Baynards Castle going up by the West end of Knight-Riders street and to Carter Lane Thus much for Lanes out of Thames street The one half of the West side of Lambert Hill Lane being of this Ward at the North-west end thereof on the South side and at the West end of St. Mary Magdalens Church on the North side beginneth Knight-Riders street to be of this Ward and runneth West on both sides to the Parish Church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe Then at the said East end of St. Mary Magdalens Church goeth up the Old Exchange all the West side whereof upto the South-East gate of Pauls Church-yard and by St. Austins Church is of this Ward About the midst of this Old Exchange on the West side thereof is Carter Lane which runneth West to the East entry of the Black-Fryers and the South end of Creed-Lane out of the which Carter Lane descendeth a Lane called Dolittle Lane and commeth into Knight-Riders street by the Boar-head Tavern and more West is Sermon Lane by an Inne called the Powl-head Then out of Carter Lane on the North side thereof the South Chain of Pauls Church-yard and the Church-yard it self on that South side of Pauls Church and the Church of St. Gregory the Bishops Palace and the Deans Lodging be all of this Ward and such be the bounds thereof The Ornaments in this Ward be Parish Churches four of old time a Castle ' divers Noble-mens Houses Halls of Companies twain and such others as shall
be shewed In Thames street at the South-East end is an ancient Messuage of old time called Beaumonts Inne as belonging to that Family of Noble-men of this Realm in the fourth of Edward the third Edward the fourth in the fifth of his Reign gave it to W. Hastings Lord Chamberlaine Master of his Mints It is how called Huntington House as belonging to the Earls of Huntington Next is Pauls Wharfe a large landing place with a common Stayre upon the River of Thames at the end of a street called Pauls Wharf Hill which runneth down from Pauls Chain Next is a great Messuage called Scroopes Inne sometime belonging to the Scroopes in the thirty one of Henry the sixth Then is one other great Messuage sometime belonging to the Abbey of Fiscampe beyond the Sea and by reason of the Wars it coming to the hands of King Edward the third the same was given to Sir Simon Burley Knight of the Garâ—er and therefore called Burley House in Thames street between Baynards Castle and Pauls Wharfe Then have you Baynards Castle whereof this whole Ward taketh name This Castle banketh on the River Thames and was callest Baynards Castle of Baynard a Nobleman that came in with William the Conquerour of the which Castle and of Baynard himself we have spoken in another place There was also another Tower by Baynards Castle builded by King Edward the second Edward the third in the second of his Reign gave it to William Duke of Hamelake in the County of Yorke and his Heirs for one Rose yearly to be paid for all service the same place as seemeth was since called Legates Inne in the seventh of Edward the fourth where be now divers Wood-Wharfes in the place Then is there a great Brew-house and Puddle-Wharfe a Water-gate into the Thames where Houses use to be watered and therefore being filled with their trampling made puddle-like as also of one Puddle dwelling there it is call'd Puddle Wharfe Then is there a Lane between the Black Fryars and the Thames called in the twenty six of Edward the third Castle-lane This Ward ascendeth up by the East VVall of the Black-Fryers to the South VVest end of Creed Lane where it endeth on that side Then to begin again on the North side of Thames-street over against Huntington House by St. Peters Church and Lane called Peter Hill and so to St. Bennet Hude or Hithe over against Pauls VVharfe is a convenient Parish Church which hath the Monuments of Sir VVilliam Cheny Knight and Margaret his VVife 1442 buried there VVest from this Church by the South end of Addle street almost against Puddle VVharfe there is one ancient building of Stone and Timber builded by the Lords of Barkley and therefore called Barkleys Inne This House is now all in ruine and letten out in several Tenements yet the Arms of the Lord Barkley remain in the Stone-work of an arched Gate and is between a Cheveron Crosses ten three and four Richard Beauchampe Earl of VVarwick was lodged in this House then called Barkleys Inne in the Parish of St. Andrew in the Reign of Henry the sixth Then turning up towards the North is the Parish Church of St. Andrew in the VVardrobe a proper Church but few Monuments hath it Iohn Parnt hath founded a Chauntrey there Then is the Kings great VVardrobe Sir Iohn Beauchamp Knight of the Garter Constable of Dover Warden of the Cinqueports son to Guido de Beauchamp Earl of VVarwick builded this House was lodged there deceased in the year 1359 and was buried on the South side of the middle I le of Pauls Church His Executors sold the House to King Edward the third Touching Laâ—es ascending out of Thames street to Knight-Riders the first is Peter Hill wherein I find no maâ—ter of note more than certain Alms-houses lately founded on the West side thereof by David Smith Embroyderer for six poor Widdows whereof each to have twenty shillings by the year At the upper end of this Lane towards the North the corner Houses there be called Peter Key but the reason thereof we have not heard Then is Pauls VVharfe on the East side whereof is VVoodmongers Hall And next adjoyning is Darby-house sometime belonging to the Stanleys for Thomas Stanley first Earl of Darby of that name who married the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond Mother to Henry the seventh in his time builded it Queen Mary gave it to Gilbert Dethick then Garter principal King of Arms of English men Thomas Hauley Clarentieux King of Arms of the South parts VVilliam Harvey alià s Norroy King of Armes of the North parts and the other Heralds and Pursevants of Arms and their Successors all the Capital Messuage or House called Darby house with the appurtenances situate in the Parish of Saint Bennet and Saint Peter and then being in the tenure of Sir Richard Sackvile Knight and lately parcel of the Lands of Edward Earl of Darby c. To the end that the said Kings of Arms Heraulds and Pursevants of Arms and their Successors might at their liking dwell together and at meet times congregate speak confer and agree among themselves for the good Government of their Faculty and their Records might be more safely kept c. On the West side of this street is one other great House builded of Stone which belongeth to Pauls Church and was sometime letteâ— to the Blunts Lord Mountjoy but of later time to a Colledge in Cambridge and from them to the Doctors of the Civil Law and Arches who keep a Commons there and many of them being lodged there it is called the Doctors Commons In Lambard Hill Lane on the West side thereof is the Black-smiths Hall Over-against the North-west end of this Lambard Hill Lane in Knight-Riders street is the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen a small Church having but few Monuments By the East end of St. Mary Magdalene Church runneth up the Old Exchange Lane by the West end of Carter Lane to the South-East Gate or Chaine of Pauls Church-yard as is before shewed And in this part was the Exchange kept and Bullion was received for Coynage as is noted in Faringdon Ward Within In this Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen out of Knight-Riders street up to Carter Lane be two small Lanes the one of them called Doo-little Lane as a place not inhabited by Artificers or open Shop-keepers but serving for a near passage from Knight-Riders street to Carter-Lane The other corruptly called Sermon Lane for Sheremoniers Lane For we find it by that name recorded in the fourteenth of Edward the first And in that Lane a place to be called the Black Lâ—ft of melting Silver with four Shops adjoyning It may therefore be well supposed that Lane to take its name of Shermonierâ— such as cut and rounded the Plates to be Coyned or stamped into Estarling pence for the place of Coyning was the Old Exchange In Knight-Riders street was the Colledge of Physicians wherein was founded in the year 1582
in the Wheels of shod Carts being each of them as big as a mans finger and a quarter of a yard long the heads two inches over Those nayles were more wondred at then the rest of the things there found and many Opinions of men were there passed upon them namely that the men there buried were murthered by driving those nayles into their heads But to set down what was observed concerning this matter there were there the bones of a man lying the head North the feet South and round about him athwart his head along both his sides and thwart his feet such nails were found wherefore it may be conjectured they were the nayls of his Coffin which had bin a trough cut out of some great Tree and the same covered with a Plank of that thickness fastened with such nayls and found under the broad heads of some of those nayls the old Wood was found scant turned into Earth but still retaining both the grain and proper colour And thus much for that part of Bishopsgate-Ward now we will proceed to that part which lyeth within the Gate And first to begin on the left hand of Bishopsgate from the Gate ye have certain Tenements of old time pertaining to a Brother-hood of St. Nicholas granted to the Parish Clarks of London for two Chaplains to be kept in the Chappel of St. Mary Magdalen near unto the Guild-Hall of London in the 27. of Henry the sixth The first of these Houses towards the North and against the Wall of the City was sometime a large Inne or Court called the Wrastlers of such a signe And the last in the high street towards the South was sometime also a fair Inne called the Angel of such a signe Amongst these said Tenements was on the same street side a fair Entry or Court to the common Hall of the said Parish-Clarks with proper Alms-houses seven in number adjoyning for Parish-Clarks and their Wives and their Widows such as were in great years not able to labour one of these by the said Brother-hood of Parish-Clarks was allowed sixteen pence the week the other six had each of them nine pence the week according to the Patent granted to that effect This Brother-hood amongst other being suppressed in the Raign of Edward the sixth the said Hall with the other Buildings there was given to Sir Robert Chester a Knight of Cambridge-shire against whom the Parish-Clarks commencing suit in the Raign of Queen Mary and being like to have prevailed the said Sir Robert Chester pulled down the Hall sold the Timber stone and Lead and thereupon the suiâ— was ended The Alms-houses remained in the Queens hands and people were there placed such as could make best friends some of them taking the pension appointed and letting forth their houses at great Rent have given occasion to the Pâ—rson of the Parish to challenge Tithes of them c. Next unto this is the small Parish Church of Saint Ethelburgh Virgin and from thence some small distance is a large Court called Little St. Helens because it pertained to the Nuns of St. Helens and was their House there were there seven Alms-Rooms or Houses for the poor belonging to the Company of Leathersellers Then somewhat more West is another Court with a winding Lane which commeth out against the West end of St. Andrew Undershafts Church In this Court standeth the fair Church of St. Helen sometime a Priory of black Nuns and in the same the Parish Church of St. Helen This Priory was founded before the Raign of Henry the third William Baâ—ing Dean of Pauls was the first founder and was there buried and William Basing one of the Sheriffs of London in the second year of Edward the second was holden also to be a Founder or rather an helper thereof This Priory being valued at 1314 l. 2 s. 6 d. was surrendred the five and twentieth of November the thirtieth of Henry the eighth the whole Church the partition betwixt the Nuns Church and the Parish Church being taken down remaineth now to the Parish and is a fair Church but wanteth such a Steeple as Sir Thomas Gresham promised to have builded in recompence of ground in that Church filled up with his Monument The Nuns Hall and other Housing thereto pertaining was since purchased by the Company of Leather-sellers and is their common Hall which Company was incorporate the one and twentieth year of Richard the second A young new-born Child was taken up between the great Ware-house and Sir Iohn Spencers back-gate being by a most unnatural Mother there buried in a great Dung-hill of Sea-coal Ashes with the face upward yet found alive by Richard Atkinson who used to make clean the passage there of the soyle carrying it thence with his Wheel-Barrow The Child had not any ragg or Cloth about it but was all bloodied by reason that the Navil string was untyed and the Body meerly crusted over with the Seacoal-dust yet being made clean by the poor mans Wife it was found to be a most goodly Man-Child strong and well-featured without any blemish or harm upon it but strangled inwardly by sucking in the noysome filth and Ashes He was Christned and named Iob cinere extractus Iob taken out of the Ashes He lived three dayes and lies buried in the Church-yard the fifth of September 1612. Of the Sixth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of LONDON called Broad-street Ward WE will now proceed to make a Perambulation in Broad street Ward whereof part lies contigâ—ous to Bishopsgate Ward for it beginneth from the water Conduit Westward on both sides of the street by Alhallows Church to an Iron Grate on the Channel which runneth into the water-course of Wallbrook before ye come to the Postern called Moregate and this is the farthest West part of that Ward Then have ye Broad street where of the Ward taketh name which stretcheth out of the former street from the East Corner of Alhallowes Church-yard somewhat South to the Parish Church of Saint Peter the poor on both sides and then by the South Gate of the Augustine Fryars West down Throgmorton street by the Drapers Hall into Loathbury to another Grate of Iron on the Channel there whence the water runneth into the course of Wallbrook under the East end of St. Margarets Church certain posts of Timber are there set up and this is also the furthest West part of this Ward in the said street out of the which street it runneth up Bartholomew Lane South to the North side of the Exchange then more East out of the former street From over against the Fryars Augustines Church South gate runneth up another part of Broad streete South to a Pump over against St. Bennets Church Then have ye one other street called Threed-needle street beginning at the Well with two Buckets by St. Martins Oteswich Church Wall This street runneth down on both sides to Finkes-Lane now called Finch Lane and half way up that Lane to a Gate of a Marchants house on
the North and Lumbard-street on the West in Lumbard-street is one fair Parish Church called Alhallowes Grasse-Church in Lumbard-street for so 't is read in Evidences of Record for that the Grasse-Market went down that way when that street was farre broader then now it is being straightned by incroachments now This Church was new builded John Warner Armorer and then Grocer Sheriff 1494. builded the South I le his Sonne Robert Warner Esquire finished it in the year 1516. The Pewterers were benefactors towards the North I le c. The Steeple or Bel-Tower thereof was finished in the year 1554. about the 36. of Henry the 8th The fair Stone-Porch of this Church was brought from the late dissolved Priory of St. John of Jerusalem by Smithfield so was the frame of their Bells but the Bells being bought were never brought thither by reason that one old VVarner Draper of that Parish deceasing his Sonne Mark VVarner would not perform what his Father had begun and appointed so that fair Steeple hath but one Bell as Fryers were wont to use c. Next is a common Ostery for Travellers called the George of such a signe This is said to have pertained to the Earl Ferrers and was his London Lodging in Lumbardstreet And that in the year 1175. a Brother of the said Earl being there privily slain in the night was there thrown down into the dirty street Next is the Parish Church of St. Edmond the King and Martyr in Lumbard-street by the South corner of Birchover Lane This Church is also called St. Edmond Grasse-Church because the said Grasse-Market came down so low Sir John Mâ—lburn and Sir VVilliam Chester both Lord Maiors with others have Monuments in this Church From this Church down Lombard-street by Birchovers Lane the one half of which Lane is of this Ward and so down be divers fair Houses namely one with a fair fore-front towards the street builded by Sir Martin Bowes Goldsmith since Maior of London And then one other sometime belonging to William de la pole Earl of Suffolk in the 24. of Richard the second and was his Marchants House and so down towards the Stocks Market lacking but some three houses thereof The South side of this Ward beginneth in the East at the Chain to be drawn thwart Mart-Lane up into Fenchurch-street and so West by the North end of Mincheon-Lane to St. Margaret Pattens street or Rood Lane and down that street to the mid-way towards St. Margarets Church then by Philpot-Lane so called of Sir John Philpot that dwelled there and was owner thereof and down that Lane some six or eight houses on each side is all of this Ward Then by Grasse-Church corner into Lumbard-street to St. Clements Lâ—ne and down the same to St. Clements Church then down St. Nicholas Lane and down the same to St. Nicholas Church and the same Church is of this Ward Then to Abchurch Lane and down some small portion thereof then down Sherborn-Lane a part thereof and a part of Bearbinder-Lane be of this Ward and then down Lumbard-street to the sign of the Angel almost to the corner over against the Stocks Market On the South side of this Ward somewhat within Mart-lane have ye the Parish Church of Alhallowes commonly called Stane-Church as may be supposed for a difference from other Churches of that name in this City which of old time were builded of Timber and since were builded of stone Sir John Test Knight of the holy Sepulcher hath here a Monument with others Then is the Parish Church of St. Nicholas Acon or Hacon for so it is read in the Records in Lombardstreet Sir John Bridges Draper Maior 1520. newly repaired this Church and imbattelled it and was there buried Then is there in the high street a comely Parish Church of St. Mary Wolnoth of the Nativity the reason of which name the Annals make no mention This Church is lately new builded Sir Hugh Price Goldsmith Mayor in the first year of Henry the 7th Keeper of the Kings Exchange at London and one of the Governours of the Kings Mint in the Tower of London under William Lord Hastings the fifth of Edward the fourth deceased 1496. He builded in this Church a Chappel called the Charnel as also part of the Body of the Church and of the Steeple and gave money toward the finishing thereof besides the stone that he had prepared he was buried in the Body of the Church and Guy Brice or Boys was also buried there with some other of note Simon Eyre 1459. He gave the Tavern called the Cardinals Hat in Lumbard-street with a Tenement annexed on the East part of the Tavern and a Mansion behind the East Tenement together with an Ally from Lumbard-street to Corn-hill with the appurrenances all which were by him new builded toward a Brother-hood of our Lady in St. Mary Wolnoths Church Among others Sir Martin Bowes hath a Monument there who Anno 1569. gave certain Lands for discharging Langborn Ward of all fifteens granted by Parliament Of the Ninth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Billingsgate Ward WE will now go South-East and take a Survey of Billingsgate-Ward which beginneth at the West end of Tower-street Ward in Thames-street about Smarts Key and runneth down along that street on the South side to St. Magnus Church at the Bridge foot and on the North side of the said Thames-street from over against Smarts Key till over against the North-West Corner of St. Magnus Church aforesaid On this North side of Thames-street is St. Mary Hill Lane up to St. Margarets Church and then part of St. Margarets Pattens street at the end of St. Mary Hills Lane next out of Thames-street is Lucas Lane and then Buttolph Lane and at the North end thereof Philpot Lane Then is there Rother Lane of old time so called and thwart the same Lane is little East-Cheape And these be the bounds of Billingsgate Ward Touching the principal Ornaments within this Ward on the South side of Thamesstreet beginning at the East end thereof there is first the said Smarts Key so called of one Smart sometime owner thereof The next is Billinsgate whereof the whole Ward taketh name the which leaving out of the Roman's faining it to be builded by King Belâ—nus a Britain â—ong before the Incarnation of Christ is at this present a large Water-gate Port or Harbor for Ships and Boats commonly arriving there with Fish both fresh and salt Shell-fishes Salt Oranges Onions and other Fruits and Rooâ—s Wheat Rie and Grain of divers sorts for service of the City and the parts of this Realm adjoyning This Gate is now more frequented then of old time when the Queens Hith was used as being appointed by the Kings of this Realm to be the special or only Port for taking up of all such kind of Matchandizes brought to this City by strangers and Forraigners because the Draw-Bridge of Timbeâ— at London Bridge was then to be raised and drawn
Edward the black Prince sonne to Edward the third who was in his life time lodged there and 't was called the Prince of VVales his Court which was afterward for a long time a common Hostry having the sign of the Black Bell. Of the Eleventh Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Candle-wick Ward WE will now see what light Antiquity can give us of Candle-wick street or Candle-wright street Ward It beginneth at the East end of great East-cheap it passeth West through East-cheap to Candle-wright street and thorough the same down to the North end of Suffolk Lane on the South side and down that Lane by the West end of St. Lawrence Church-yard which is the farthest West part of that Ward the street of Great East-cheap is so called of the Market there kept in the East part of the City as VVest-cheap is a Market so called being in the West This East-Cheap is now a Flesh-market of Butchers there dwelling on both sides of the street it had sometime also Cooks mixed amongst the Bâ—tchers and such other as sold Victuals ready dressed of all sorts For of old time when friends did meet and were disposed to be merry they never went to dine and Sup in Taverns but to the Cooks where they called for meat what them liked 〈◊〉 they alwayes sound ready dressed and at a reasonable rate for Vintners 〈◊〉 â—old onâ—y Wine In the year 1410. the eleventh of Henry the fourth upon the Even of Saint Iohn Baptist the Kings Sonnes Thomas and Iohn being in East-Cheape at Supper or rather at break-fast for it was after the Watch was broken up betwixt two and three a Clock after mid-night a great debate happened between their men and other of the Court which lasted one houre till the Maior and Sheriffs with other Citizens appeaâ—â—d the same For the which afterwards the said Maior Aldermen and Sheriffs were called to answer before the King his Sons and divers Lords being highly moved against the City At which time William Gascoignâ— chief Justice required the Maior and Aldermen for the Citizens to put them in the Kings Grace whereunto they answered that they had not offended but according to the Law had done their best in stinting debate and maintaining of the peace upon which answer the King remitted all his Ire and dismissed them And to prove this East-Cheape to be a place replenished with Cooks it may appear by a Song called London lick-penny made by Lidgate a Monk of Bury in the Reign of Henry the fifth in the person of a Country-man comming to London and travelling thorough the same In West-Cheape saith the Song he was called on to buy fine Lawn Paris Thred Cotton Umble and other linnen Clothes and such like he speaketh of no silk In Corn-hill to buy old Apparel and Houshold-stuffe where he was forced to buy his own Hood which he had lost in Westminster-hall In Candlewright-street Drapers proâ—cred him Cheap Cloth In East-Cheape the Cooks cryed hot Ribs of Beef rosted Pies well baked and other Victuals There was clattering of Pewter-Pots Harp Pipe and Sawtry yea by cock nay by cock for greater Oaths were spared some sang of Ienkin and Julian c. All which Melody liked well the Passenger but he wanted money to abide by it and therefore gat him into Gravesend-Barge and home into Kent Candlewright so called in old Records of the Guild-hall of St. Mary Overies and other or Candlewick-street took that name as may be supposed either of Chaundlers or Makers of Candles both of Wax and Tallow for Candle-wright is a Maker of Candles and of Wick which is the Cotton or yarn thereof or otherwise which is the place where they used to work them as scalding wick by the Stocks-Market was called of the Poulterers dressing and scalding their Poultry there And in divers Countries Dairy-houses or Cottages wherein they make Butter and Cheese are usually called Wickes There dwelled also of old time divers Weavers of Woollen Clothes brought in by Edward the 3d for I read that in the four and twentieth of his Reign the Weavers brought out of Flanders were appointed their meetings to be in the Church-yard of St. Lawrence Poultney and the Weavers of Brabant in the Church-yard of St. Mary Sommerset There were then in this City Weavers of divers sorts to wit of Drapery or Tapery and Nappery these Weavers of Candlewicke street being in short time worn out their place is now possessed by rich Drapers Sellers of Woollen Cloth c. On the Northside of this Ward at the West end of East-Cheape have ye St. Clements Lane a part whereof on both sides is of Candlewicke street Ward to wit somewhat North beyond the Parish Church of St. Clement in East-cheape Though this Church be small yet there are some comely Monuments in it among others of William Chartney and William Overy who founded a Chantry there Next is St. Nicholas Lane for the most part on both sides of this Ward almost to St. Nicholas Church Then is Abchurch Lane which is on both sides almost wholly of this Ward the Parish Church there called of St. Mary Abchurch Apechurch or Upchurch as I have read it standeth somewhat near unto the South end thereof on a rising ground It is a fair Church Simon de Winchcombe sounded a Chauntery there the 19th of Richard the Littletonâ—ounded â—ounded another and Thomas Hondon another Here are likewise some remarkable Monuments particularly of Sir Iames and Sir Iohn Branch both Lord Mayors of London about the year 1570. On the South side of this Ward beginning again at the East is St. Michaels lane which lane is almost wholly of this Ward on both sides down towards Thames street to a Well or Pump there on the East side of this Lane is Crooked Lane aforesaid by St. Michaels Church towards New Fishstreet One of the most ancient Houses in this Lane is called the Leaden Porch and belonged sometime to Sir John Merston Knight the first of Edward the 4th It is now called the Swan in Crooked Lane possessed of strangers and retailing of Rhenish Wine The Parish Church of this St. Michaels was sometime but a small and homely thing standing upon part of that ground wherein now standeth the Parsonage House and the ground thereabout was a filthy plot by reason of the Butchers in East-Cheape who made the same their Lay-stall VV. de Burgo gave two Messuages to that Church in Candlewick street 1317. John Loveken Stock-fish monger fout times Maior builded in the same ground this fair Church of St. Michael and was there buried in the Quire under a fair Tombe with the Images of him and his Wise in Alabaster the said Church hath bin since increased with a new Quire and side Chappels by Sir W. Walworth Stock-fishmonger Maior sometime Servant to the said John Loveken Also the Tombe of Loveken was removed and a flat stone of gray marble garnished with Plates of Copper laid on him as it
of the Bath in the yeer 1432 purchased the Patronage of this Church from John Duke of Bedford Unkle to Henry the sixth and Edward the fourth in the second of his Reign gave it to Sir Richard Lee then Mayor who ileth there hansomely entomb'd having bin twice Lord Maior with divers others Lower down from this Parish Church be â—ivers fair houses namely one wherein of late Sir Richard Baker a Knight of Kent was lodged and wherein also dwelled Mr. Thomas Gore a Merchant famous for Hospitality On the West side of this VValbrook street over against the Stocks Market is a part of the High street called the Poultry On the South side West till over against Saint Mildreds Church and the Scalding wike is of this Ward Then down again Wallbrook street some small distance in Buckles Bury a street so called of Buckle that sometime was owner thereof part of which street on both sides three or four Houses to the course of the Brook is of this Ward and so down VValbrook street to the South corner from whence West down Budge row some small distance to an Alley and thorow that Alâ—ey South by the West end of St. Johns Church upon VValbrook by the South side and East end of the same again to VValbrook corner This Parish Church is called St John upon VValbrook because the West end thereof is on the very bank of Walbrook by Horshooe Bridge in Horshooe-Bridge street This Church was also lately new builded for about the year 1412 Licence was granted by the Mayor and Communalty to the Parson and Parish for the inlarging thereof with a piece of ground on the North part of the Quire one and twenty foot in length seventeen foot in breadth and three inches and on the South side of the Quite one foot of the common soyle On the South side of Walbrook Ward from Candle-wick street in the mid-way between London-stone and Walbrook corner is a little Lane with a Turn-Pike in the middest thereof and in the same a hansome Parish Church called S. Mary Bothaw or Boat-Haw by the Erbar This Church being near unto Downgate on the River of Thames hath the addition of Bothaw or Boat-haw of near adjoyning to an Haw or Yard wherein of old time Boats were made and landed from Downgate to be mended as may be supposed for other reason I find none why it should be so called This Church hath one remarkable thing in it viz. The Monument of the first Lord May or of London Sir Henry Fitz Alwin His dwelling House remains yet in the Parish but divided to divers Tenements Mr. Stow relates that he was buried in the holy Trinity within Algate but it is far more probable that he was buried here because his Armsâ— are both upon the Gravestone and the Windows Of the Thirteenth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Dowgate Ward WE will now following the thred of our Discourse descend to Downgate Ward which beginneth at the South end of Wallbrook Ward over against the East corner of St. Iohns Church upon Walbrook and descendeth on both the sides to Downgate or Dowgate on the Thames and is so called of that down going or descending thereunto and of this Downgate the Ward taketh name This Ward turneth into Thames street Westward some ten Houâ—es on a side to the course of Walbrooke but East in Thames street on both sides to Ebgate Lane or Old Swan the Land-side whereof hath many Lanes turning up as shall be shewed when we come to them But first to begin with the High street called Dowgate at the upper end thereof is a fair Conduit of Thames Water castellated and made in the year 1568 at the charges of the Citizens and is called the Conduit upon Dowgate The descent of this streâ—t is such that in the year 1574 on the fourth of September in the afternoon there fell a storm of rain where-through the Channels suddenly aroâ—e and ran with such a swift course towards the Common-shores that a Lad of eighteen years old minding to have leapt over the Channel near unto the said Conduit was taken with the stream and carried from thence towards the Thames with such a violence that no man with staves or otherwise could stay him till he came against a Cart-wheele that stood in the said Water-gate before which time he was drowned and stark dead On the West side of this street is Tallow-Chandlers Hall a hansome house which Company was incorporated in the second year of Edward the fourth Somewhat lower standeth the Skinners Hall a fair house which was sometimes called Copped Hall by Downgate in the Parish of St. John upon Wallbrook In the nineteenth year of Edward the second Ralph Cobham possessed it with five shops c. This Company of Skinners in London was incorporate by Edward the third in the first of his Reign they had two Brotherhoods of Corpus Christi viz. one at St. Mary Spittle the other at St. Mary Bethlem without Bishopsgate Richard the second in the eighteenth of his Reign granted them to make their two Brotherhoods one by the name of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi of Skinners divers Royal persons were named to be Founders and Brethren of this Fraternity to wit Kings six Dukes nine Earls two Lords one Kâ—ngs Edward the third Richard the second Henry the fifth Henry the sixth and Edward the fourth This Fraternity had also once every year on Corpus Christi day afternoon a a proâ—ession which passed through the principal streets of the City wherein was borne more than one hundred Torches of Wax costly garnished burning light and above two hundred Clerks and Priests in Surplesses and Coaps singing After the which were the Sheriffs servants the Clarks of the Compters Chaplains for the Sheriffs the Mayors Sergeants the Councel of the City the Mayor and Aldermen in Scarlet and then the Skinners in their best Liveries Then lower was a Colledge of Priests called Jesus Commons a House well furnished with Brasse Pewter Napery Plate c. besides a fair Library well stored with Books all which of old time were given to a number of Priests that should keep Commons there and as one left his pâ—ace by death or otherwise another should be admitted into his room but this Order within these 70. years being discontinued the said House was dissolved and turned into Tenements Down lower have ye Elbowe Lane and at the corner thereof was one great Stone-house called Old-hall it is now taken down and divers fair Houses of Timber placed there This was sometimes pertaining to William de pont le Arch and by him given the Priory of St. Mary Overy in Southwark in the Reign oâ— Henry the first In this Elbow-lane is the Inholders Hall and other fair Houses this Lane runneth West and suddenly turneth South into Thames-street and therefore of that bending is called Elbow-lane on the East side of this Downgate-street is the great old House before spoken of
is ordered by our Soveraign Lord and his Parliament that the said Marchants of Aâ—main being of the Company called the Guild-hall Theutonicorum or the Flemish Geld that now be or hereafter shall be shall have hold and enjoy to them and their Successors for ever the said place called the Steel-house yielding to the Maior and Commonalty an annual Rent of threescore and ten pounds three shillings foure pence c. In the year 1551 the 5th of Edward the 6th through complaint of the English Marchants the liberty of the Steel-yard Marchants was seized into the Kings hands and so it resteth Then is Church-lane at the West end of Alhollowes Church called Alhollowds the more in Thames-street for a difference from Alhollowes the lesse in the same street It is also called Alhollowes ad faenum in the Ropery because Hay was sold near thereunto at Hay-Wharf and Ropes of old time made and soâ—d in the high street This is a fair Church with a large Cloyster on the South side thereof about their Church-yard but fouly defaced and ruinated Dr. Lichfield a learned man and an Authour who died 1447. lieth here buried with other Benefactors At the East end of this Church goeth down a Lane called Wharf-lane now lately a great Brew-house builded there by one Pot Hen Compion Esq a Beere-Brewer used it Abraham his Son since possessed it Then was there one other Lane sometime called Woolseys Gate now out of use for the lower part thereof upon the Bank of Thames is builded by the late Earl of Shrewsbury the other end is builded on stopped up by the Chamberlain of London I. Butler Draper one of the Sheriffs in the year 1420. dwelled there He appointed his house to be sold and the price thereof to be given to the poor it was of Alhollowes Parish the lesse Then is there the said Parish-Church of Alhollowes called the Lesse and by some Alhollowes on the Cellars for it standeth on Vauâ—ts it is said to be builded by Sir Iohn Poultney sometimes Mayor The Steeple and Quire of this Church stand on an Arched Gate being the entry to a great House called Cold Harborough the Quire of late being fallen down is now again at length in the year 1594. by the Parishioners new builded Touching this Cold Harborough I finde that in thirteenth of Edward the second Sir Iohn Abel Knight demised or let unto Henry Stow Draper all that his Capital Messuage called the Cold Harborough in the Parish of All Saints ad fanum all the puâ—tenances within the Gate with the Key which Rob. Hartford Citizen Son to W. Hartford had ought the foresaid Rob. paid for it Rent 335. the year This Ro. Hartford being owner thereof as also of other Lands in Surrey deceasing without issue Male left two Daughters his Co-heires to wit Idonia married to Sir Ralph Biggot and Maude married to Sir Stephen Cosenton Knights between whom the said House Lands were parted After the which Io. Bigot Sonne to the said Sir Ralph Sir Iohn Cosentâ—n did â—ell their Moyeties of Cold Harborough unto Iohn Poultney Sonne of Adam Poultney the 8th of Edward the 3d. This Sir John Poultney dwelling in this House and being four times Mayor the said House took the name of Poultneys Inne notwithstanding this Sir John Poultney the 21. of Edward the 3d by his Charter gave and confirmed to Humphrey de Bohune Earl of Hereford and Essex his whole Tenement called Cold Harborough with all the Tenements and Key adjoyning and appurtenances sometime pertaining to Robert de Hereford on the way called Hay-wharf Lane c. for one Rose at Midsommer to him and his Heires for all services if the same were demanded This Sir John Poultney deceased 1349. and left issue by Margaret his Wife William Poultney who dyed without issue and Margaret his Mother was married to Sir Nicholas Lovel Knight c. Philip St. Cleare gave two Messuages pertaining to this Cold Harbrough in the Ropery towards the enlarging of the Parish Church and Church-yard of Al-Saints called the lesse in the 20. of Richard the second In the year 1397. the 21. of Richard the 2d John Holland Earl of Huntington was lodged there and Richard the second his Brother dined with him it was then counted a right fair and stately house But in the next year following I finde that Edmund Earl of Cambridge was there lodged notwithstanding the said house still retained the name of Poulâ—neys Inne in the Reign of Henry the sixth the 26 of his Reign It belonged since to H. Holland Duke of Excester and he was lodged there in the year 1472. In the year 1485. Richard the third by his Letters Patents granted and gave to John VVrith alias Garter principal King of Arms of English men and to the rest of the Kings Heralds and Pursevants of Arms all that Messuage with the appurtenances called Cold Harber in the Parish of Al-Saints the little in London and their Successors for ever Dated at VVestminster the second of March Anno regni sui primo without fine or fee. How the said Heraulds departed therewith I have not read â—ut in the Reign of Henry the eighth the Bishop of Durhams housâ— neer Charing Crosse being taken into the Kings hand Cuthbert Tunstall Bishop of Durham was lodged in this Cold Harber since the which time it hath belonged to the Earls of Shrewsbury by composition as is supposed from the said Cuthbert Tunstall The last deceaâ—ed Earâ— took it down and in place thereof builded a great number of â—mall Tenements now letten out for great Rents to people of all sorts Then is the Dyers-hall which Company was made a Brother-hood and a Guild in the fourth Henry the sixth and appointed to consist oâ— a Gardian or Warden and a Communalty the twelvth of Edward the fourth Then be there divers large Brew-houses and others till you come to Ebgate Lane where that Ward endeth in the East On the North side of Thames-street be divers Lanes also the first is at the South end of Elbow Lane before spoken of West from Downgate over against Greenwich-lane then be divers fair Houses for Marchants and others all along that side The next Lane East from Downâ—gate is called Bush-lane which turneth up to Candlewick-street and is of Down-gate Ward Next is Suffolk lane likewise turning up to Candlewick-street in this Lane is one notable Grammar School founded in the year 1561. by the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Marchant-Taylors in the Parish of St. Lawrence Poultney Richard Hills sometimes Master of that Company having before given 500 l. toward the purchase of an House called the Mannor of the Rose sometime belonging to the Duke of Buckingham wherein the said School is kept Then is there one other Lane which turneth up to St. Lawrence-hill and to the South vvest Corner of St. Lawrence Church-yard then another Lane called Poultney-lane that goeth up of this Ward to the South-East corner of St.
Lawrence Church-yard and so down again and to the West corner of St. Martin Orgar lane and over against Ebgate-lane and this is all of Downgate-vvard the thirteenth in number lying East from the Water-course of VVallbrooke and hat hnot any one House on the West side of the said Brook This Dowgate vvard is more considerable then others in divers things for it hath more Halls then any other it hath also the Great Hans or the Teutonique Guild call'd now the Stil-yard Mr. John Robinson who hath his House in Milk-street is lately made the Alderman of this VVard a generous discreet and worthy Gentleman being of the Company of the Turkie or Levantine Marchants Of the Fourteenth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Vintry Ward THe Wards spoken of hitherto may besaid to lye on the East Now I am to treat of the other Wardâ— twelve in number all lying on the West side of the course of Wallbrook and first of the Vintry Ward so called of Vintners and of the Vintry a part of the Bank of the River of Thames where the Merchants of Bourdeaux craned their Wines out of Lighters and other Vessels and there landed and made sale of them within forty daies after until the twenty eighth of Edward the first at which time the said Merchants complained that they could not fell their Wines paying poundage neither hire Houses or Cellars to lay them in and it was redressed by virtue of the Kings Writ directed to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London dated at Carlaveroke or Carlile since the which time many fair and large houses with Vaults and Cellars for stowage of Wines and lodging of Burdeaux Merchants have been builded in place where before time were Cooks houses for Fâ—tz Stephen in the Reign of Henry the second writeth that upon the Rivers side between the Wine in Ships and the Wine to be sold in Taverns was a common Cooks row c. as in another place I have set down Whereby it appears that in those daies and till of late times every man lived according to his own professed Trade not any one interrupting another The Cooks dressed meat and sold no Wine and the Taverner sold Wine but dressed â—o meat for sale c. This Ward beginneth in the East at the West end of Downgate Ward at the Water-course of Walbrook which parteth them to wit at Granthams Lane on the Thames side and at Elbow-Lane on the Lands side it runneth along in Thames street West some three houses beyond the Old Swan a Brew-house and on the Land side some three Houses West beyond Saint Iames at Garlick Hithe In breadth this Ward stretcheth from the Vintry North to the Wall of the West gate of the Tower Royal the other North part is of Cordwainer-street Ward Out of this Royal street by the South gate of Tower Royal runneth a small street East to St. Iohns upon Walbrook which street is called Horseshooe-Bridge of such a Bridge sometime over the Brook there which is now vaulted over and pavâ—d Then from the South gate West runneth one other street called Knight-riders street by Saint Thomas Apostles Church on the North side and Wrâ—â—gwren Lare by the said Church at the West end thereof and to the East end of Trinity Church in the said Knight-riders street where this Ward endeth on that South side the street but on the North side it runneth no farther than the corner against the new builded Taverne and other Houses in a plot of ground where sometime stood Ormond place yet have ye one other Lane lower down in Royall-street stretching forth from over against Saint Michaels Church to and by the North side of Saint Iames Church by Garlick Hithe this is called Kerion Lane and thus much for the bounds of the Vintry Ward Now on the Thames side West from Granthams Lane have ye Herbert Lane or Brickles Lane so called of Iohn Brickles sometimes owner thereof Then is Simpsons Lane of one Simpson or Emperours head Lane of such a Sign then the Three Cranes Lane so called not only of a Sign of three Cranes at a Taverne door but rather of three strong Cranes of Timber placed on the Vintry Wharf by the Thames side to Crane up Wines there as is aforesaid this Lane waâ— of old time to wit the ninth of Richard the second called the Painted Tavern Lane of the Tavern being painted Then next over against St. Martins Church is a large House builded of Stone and Timber with Vaults for the stowage of Wines and is called the Vintry There dwelled John Gisers Vintner Mayor of London and Constable of the Tower and then was Henry Picard Vintner Mayor In this house Henry Picard feasted four Kings in one day as is shewed before Then next is Vanners Lane so called of Vanner that was owner thereof it is now called Church Lane of the coming up from St. Martins Church Next is Proad-Lane for that the same is broader for the passage of Carts from the Vintry Wharf than be the other Lanes At the Northwest corner of this Lane is the Parish Clarkes Hall by them purchased since they lost their old Hall in Bishopsgate-street Next is Spittle-Lane of old time so called since Stodies-Lane of the owner thereof named Stodie Sir John Stodie Vintner and Mayor in the year 1357 gave it with all the Quadrant wherein Vintners Hall now standeth with the Tenements round about unto the Vintners The Vintners builded for themselves a fair Hall and also thirteen Alms-houses there for thirteen poor people which are kept of Charity Rent-free The Vintners in London were of old time called Marchant Vintners of Gascoyne and so I read them in the Records of Edward the second the eleventh year aâ—d Edward the third the ninth year they were as well English-men as strangers born beyond the Seas but then subjects to the King of England great Burdeaux Merchants of Gascoyne French Wines divers of them were Mayors of this City namely John Adrian Vintner Reignold at Conduit John Oxenford Henry Picard that feasted the Kings of England France Scotl and and Cypres John Stodie that gave Stodies Lane to the Vintners which four last named were Mayors in the Reign of Edward the third and yet Gascoyne Wines were then to be sold at London not above fourpence nor Rhenish Wines above six pence the Gallon I read of Sweet Wines that in the fiftieth of Edward the third Iohn Peachie Fishmonger was accused of for that he procured a License for the only sale of them in London which he endeavoured to justifie by Law yet he was imprisoned and fined More I read that in the sixth of Henry the sixth the Lombards corrupted their Sweet Wines when knowledge thereof came to Iohn Raynwel Mayor of London he in divers places of the City commanded the heads of the Buts and other Vessells in the open streets to be broken to the number of a hundred and fifty so that the liquour running forth
three pence by year The Lady Stanley the Countesse of Huntingâ—on and the Lady Harbert lye buried in this Church Of the Fifteenth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Cordwayner Ward VVE will passe now from the Vintry to Cordwainer-street Ward taking that name of Cordwayners or Shoomakers Curriours and Workers of Leather dwelling there for it appeareth in the Records of Henry the sixth the ninth of his Reign that an Order was taken then for Cordwayners and Curriours in Corney-street and Sopers Lane This Ward beginneth in the East one the West side of Walbrooke and runneth West thorow Budge-row a street so called of Budge Furre and of Skinners dwelling there then up by Saint Anthenâ—es Church thorow Atheling or Noble-street as Leyland termeth it commonly called Wathling-street to the Red-Lion a place so called of a great Lion of Timber placed there at a Gate entring a large Court wherein are divers fair and large Shops well furnished with Broad-cloths and other Draperies of all sorts to be sold and this is the farthest West part of this Ward On the South side of this street from Budge-row lyeth a Lane turning down by the West-gate of the Tower Royal and to the South end of the Stone Wall beyond the said Gate which is of this Ward and is accounted a part of the Royall-street Against this West gate of the Tower-Royall is one other Lane that runneth West to Cordwainer-street and this is called Turn base Lane on the South side whereof is a piece of Wring-wren-Lane to the North-west corner of Saint Thomas Church the Apostle Then again out of the High-street called Wathling is one other street which runneth thwart the same and this is Cordwayner street whereof the whole Ward taketh name This street beginneth by West-cheap and Saint Mary Bow Church is the head thereof on the West side and it runneth down South thorow that part which of latter time was called Hosier Lane now Bow Lane and then by the West end of Aldermary Church to the new builded Houses in place of Ormond House and so to Garlick hill or Hith to St. Iames Church The upper part of this street towards Cheap was called Hosier Lane of Hosiers dwelling there in place of Shoomakers but now those Hosiers being worn out by men of other Trades as the Hosiers had worn out the Shoomakers the same is called Bow-Lane of Bow Church On the West side of Cordwainer-street is Basing-lane right over against Turn-base-lane This Basing-lane West to the back gate of the Red Lyon in Wathling-street is of this Cordwainer-street Ward Now again on the North side of this high street is Budge-row by the East end of St. Anthonies Church have ye St. Sithes Lane so called of St. Sithes Church which standeth against the North end of that Lane and this is wholly of Cordwainer-street Ward also the South side of Needlers lane which reacheth from the North end of St. Sithes lane then vvest from St. Anthonies Church is the South end of Sopers lane which lane took that name not of Sope-making as some have supposed but of Alen le Sopar in the ninth of Edward the second nor can we read of Sope-making in this City till within this hundred and fifty years that Iohn Lambe dwelling in Grasse-street set up a boyling house for this City in former time was served of white Sope in hard Cakes called Castle-Soap and other from beyond the Seas and of gray Sope speckled with white very sweet and good from Bristow sold here for a peny the pound and never above peny farthing and black Sope for an half-peny the pound Then in Bow-lane as they now call it is Goose-lane by Bow-Church Willâ—am Essex Mercer had Tenements there in the six and twentieth of Edward the third Then from the South end of Bow-lane up Wathling-street till over against the Red Lyon are the bounds of Cordwainer-street Ward Then is there a fair Parish in Budge-row called St. Anthonies at first and now St. Antlins Sir Thomas Knowles Lord Mayor of London lyeth buried there who repaired and was a great Benefactor to that Church upon whom is this Epitaph Here lyeth graven under this Stone Thomas Knowles both flesh and bone c. Next on the South side of Budge-row by the West corner thereof and on the East side of Cordwainer-street is one other fair Church called Aldermary Church because the same was very old and elder then any Church of St. Mary in the City till of late years the foundation of a very fair new Church was laid there by Henry Keeble Grocer and Mayor who deceased 1518. and was ther buried in a Vault by him prepared with a fair Monument raised over him on the North side of the Qâ—ire now destroyed and gone he gave by his Testament a thousand pound toward the building up of that Church and yet was not permitted a resting place for his bones there afterwards Richard Chawcer Vintner thought to be the Father of Ieffrey Chawcer the Poet was a great Benefactor to this Church At the upper end of Hosier-lane toward VVest-Cheape is the fair Parish Church of St. Mary Bow this Church in the Reign of VVilliam the Conqueror being the first in this City builded on Arches of Stone was therefore called New Mary Church of St. Mary de Arcubus orle Bow in VVest Cheaping As Stratford Bridge being the first builded by Matilda the Queen VVife to Henry the first with Arches of Stone was called Stratfordle Bow which names to the said Church and Bridge remain till this day the Court of the Arches is kept in this Church and taketh name of the place not the place of the Court but of what Antiquity or continuation that Court hath there continued 't is uncertain This Church is of Cordwainer-street and for divers accidents happening there hath bin made more famous than any other Parish Church of the whole City or Suburbs First we read that in the year 1090 and the third of VVilliam Rufus by tempest of vvinâ— the roof of the Church of St. Mary Bow in Cheape was overturned wherewith some persons were slain and four of the Rafters of six and twenty foot in length with such violence were pitched in the ground of the high street that scantly four foot of them remained above ground which were fain to be cut even with the ground because they could not be plucked out for the City of London was not then paved but a Moorish ground In the year 1196. VVilliam Fitz Osbert a seditious Traytor took the Steeple of Bow and fortified it with Munitions and victuals but it was assaulted and VVilllam with his Complices were taken though without blood-shed for he was forced by fire and smoak to forsake the Church and then being by the Judges condemned he was by the heels drawn to the Elmes in Smithfield and there hanged with nine of his fellowes where because his favourers came not to deliver him he forsook Maries Son as he termed
Messuage with the appurtenances in the Parish of St. Foster to William Brampton Custos of the Chauntry by them founded in the said Chappel with four Chaplains and one other House in the Parish of St. Giles without Creplegate in the seven and twentieth of Edward the third was given to them Adjoyning to this Chappel on the South side was sometime a fair and large Library furnished with Books pertaining to the Guild-Hall and Colledge These Books as it is said were in the Reign of Edward the sixth sent for by Edward Duke of Somerset Lord Protector with promise to be restored shortly Men laded from thence threescore Carts with them but they were never returned This Library was builded by the Executors of R. Whittington and by W. Bury on the other side it is now lofted through and made a Store-house for Cloaths South-west from this Guild-Hall is the fair Parish Church of St. Lawrence called in the Iury because of old time many Jewes inhabited there about This Church is fair and large and hath divers Monuments In this Church there was the Shank-bone of a man and also a Tooth of a very great bigness hanged up for shew in Chains of Iron upon a Pillar of Stone the Tooth being about the bigness of a mans fist is long since conveyed from thence the Thigh or Shank-bone of five and twenty inches in length by the Rule remaineth yet fastned to a post of Timber and is not so much to be noted for the length as for the thickness hardness and strength thereof for when it was hanged on the Stone Pillar it fretted with moving the said Pillar and was not it self fretted nor as seemeth is not yet lightned by remaining dry but where or when this Bone was first found or discovered I have not heard Of the Seventeenth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Coleman-street Ward VVE will now stear our course Northward and look towards London Walls to find out another Ward and next to Cheap Ward on the North side thereof is Coleman-street Ward and beginneth also in the East on the course of Wallbrook in Lothbury and runneth West on the South side to the end of Ironmongers Lane and on the North side to the West corner of Basing-Hall street On the South side of Lothbury is the street called the Old Iewry the one half and better on both sides towards Cheap is of this Ward Antiquities therein to be noted are these First the street of Lothbury Lathbery or Loadbay This street is possessed for the most part by Founders that cast Candlesticks Chasing-dishes Spiceâ—Mortars and such like Copper or Latin workes and do after turn them with the Foot and not with the Wheel to make them smoth and bright with turning and scrating as some do term it making a loathsome noise to the by-passers that have not been used to the like and therefore by them disdainedly called Lothbury On the South side of this street amongst the Founders be some fair Houses and large for Merchants namely one that of old time was the Jews Synagogue which was defaced by the Citizens of London after that they had slain seven hundred Jewes and spoiled the reâ—due of their goods in the year 1262 the forty seventh of Henry the third And not long after in the year 1291 King Edward the first banished the remnant of the Jewes out of England as is afore shewed The Synagogue being so suppressed certain Fryars got possession thereof For in the year 1257 saith Matthew Paris there were seen in London a new Order of Fryars called De poenitentia Iesu or Fratres de sacco because they were apparrelled in sackcloth who had their House in London near unto Aldersgate without the gate and had Licence of Henry the third in the four and twentieth of his Reign to remove from thence to any other place and in the fifty sixt she gave unto them this Iews Synagogue After which time Elianor the Queen wife to Edward the first took into her protection and warranted unto the Prior and Brethren De poenitentia Jesu Christi of London the said Land and building in Cole-Church street in the Parish of Saint Olave in the Jury and St. Margaret in Loathbury by her granted with consent of Stephen de Fulborn under-Warden of the Bridge-house and other Brethren of that House for threescore Marks of Silver which they had received of the said Prior and Brethren of repentance towards the building of the said Bridge This Order of Friers gathered many good Schollars and multiplyed in number exceedingly untill the Councel of Lyons by the which it was Decreed that from that time forth there should no more Orders of Begging Fryers be permitted but only the four Orders to wit the Dominick or Preachers the Minorites or Gray Fryers and the Augustines and so from that time the Begging Fryers decreased and fell to nothing Now it foâ—lowed that in the year 1305 Robert Fitzwalter requested and obtained of the said King Edward the first that the same Fryers of the Sack might assigne to the said Robert their Chappel or Church of old time called the Synagogue of the Iewes near adjoyning to the then Mansion house of the same Robert which was in place where now standeth the Grocers Hall and the said Synagogue was at the North Corner of the old Jury Robert Large Mercer Mayor in the year 1439 kept his Majoralty in this House and dwelled there until his dying day This House sâ—andeth and is of two Parishes as opening into Lothbury of St. Margarets Parish and opening into the Old Iewry of St. Olaves Parish The said Robert Large gave liberally to both these Parishes but was buried at St. Olâ—ves Hugh Clopton Mercet Maior 1492 dwelled in this House and kept his Majoralty there it is now a Tavern and hath to signe a Wind-Mill And thus much for this House sometimes the Iews Synagogue since an house of Fryers then a Noble mans House after that a Marchants House wherein Majoralities have bin kept and now a Wine-Tavern Then is the Old Jewry a street so called of Jews sometime dwelling there and near adjoyning in the Parishes of St. Olave St. Michael Basing Hall St. Martin Ironmonger-lane St. Lawrence called the Jewry and so West to Wood-street William Duke of Normandy first brought them from Roane to inhabit here William Rusus favoured them so far that he sware by Lukes face his common Oath if they could overcome the Christians he would be one of their Sect. Henry the second grievously punished them for corrupting his Coyne Richard the first forbad Jewes and Women to be present at his Coronation for fear of Inchantments for breaking of which Commandment many Jews were slain who being assâ—mbled to present the King with some gift one of them was â—â—icken by a Christian which some unruly people perceiving fell upon them beat them to their houses and brent them therein or slew them at their comming out Also the Jewes at Norwich St.
that the same should be performed within three years after his Decease whereupon the old Bakewell-Hall was taken down and in the Moneth of February next following the foundation of a new strong and beautiful Store-house being laid the work thereof was so diligently applyed that within the space of ten moneths after to the charges of two thousand five hundred pounds the same was finished in the year 1588. Next beyond this House are placed divers fair Houses for Marchants and others till ye come to the back Gate of Guild-hall which Gate and part of the building within the same is of this Ward some small distance beyond this Gate the Coopers have their common Hall Then is the Parish Church of St. Michael called St. Michael at Bassings-hall a proper Church lately re-edified or new builded The Nineteenth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of LONDON called Cripplegate Ward THe Next Ward is called of Cripplegate and consisteth of divers Streets and Lanes lying as well without the Gate and Wall of the City as within First within the Wall on the East part thereof towards the North it runneth to the West-side of Hall's Ward and towards the South it joyneth to the Ward of Cheap It beginneth at the West end of the St. Laurence Church in the Jury on the North-side and runeth West to a Pumpe where sometimes was a well with Buckets at the South Corner of Alderman-Bury-Street which Street runneth down North to Gayspur Lane and to London Wall which Street and Lane are wholly on both sides of this Ward and so be some few houses on both sides from Gayspur Lane by and against the Wall of the City East to the Grates made for the water-course of the Channels and West to the Creplegate Now on the South side from over against the West End of Saint Laurence Church to the Pumpe and up Milke-Street South unto Cheap which Milke-Street is wholly on both the sides of Cripplegate Ward as also without the South end of Milke-Street a part of West Cheap to wit from the Standard to the Crosse is all of Cripplegate Ward Then down great Wood-Street which is wholly of this Ward on both the sides thereof so is little Wood-Street which runneth down to Creplegate Out of this Wood-Street be diver Lanes namely on the East side is Lad lane which runneth East to Milke-Street Corner down lower in WoodStreet is Love lane which lieth by the South side of St. Albans Church in Wood-Street and runneth down to the Conduit in Aldermanbury-Street Lower down in Wood-Street is Addle-Street out of the which runneth Philip-lane down to London Wall These be the Lanes on the East-side On the West side of Wood-Street in Huggen-lane by the South side of St. Michaels Church goeth thorow to Gutherons lane Then lower is Maiden-lane which runneth West to the North End of Gutherons lane and up the said lane on the East side thereof till against Kery lane and back again then the said Maiden-lane on the North side goeth up to Staining lane up a part thereof on the East side to the farthest North part of Haberdashers Hall and back again to Wood-Street and there lower down is Silver Street which is of this Ward till ye come to the East End of St. Olaves Church on the South side and to Monkes-well Street on the North side then down the said Monkes-well Street on the East side thereof and so to Cripplegate do make the bonds of this Ward within the Walls Of these More-Feilds you have formerly read what a Moorish rotten ground they were unpassable but for Cawsways purposely made to that intent what they were also in our own nearer times of Memory even till Sir Leonard Halliday was Lord Major of London I am very well assured many do perfectly remember And what they are now at this instant by the honourable cost and care of this City and the industrious pains and diligence of that worthy Citizen Mr. Nicolas Leate we all to our continuall comfort do evidently behold Then to turn back again through the said Posternlane to More lane which More-lane with all the Allies and buildings there is of this Ward After that is Grub-Street more rhen half thereof to the Streightning of the Street Next is White-Crosse-Street up to the End of Beech-lane and then Red-Crosse-Street wholly with a part of Golding-lane even to the posts there placed as a bounder Then is Beech lane before spoken of the East side of the Red-Crosse and the Barbican-Street more than halfe thereof toward Aldersgate-Street Touching the Antiquitie of this Old Aldermans-Bury or Court I have not read other then that Richard Kenery one of the Sheriffs of London in the first of Richard the first which was in the year of Christ 1189. gave to the Church of Saint Mary at Osâ—ey by Oxford certain grounds and rents in Alderman-Bury of London as appeareth by the Register of that Church as as also entered into the Hustings of the Guild-Hall in London This Old Bery Court or Hall continued and the courts of the Major and Aldermen were continually holden there untill the New Bery-Court or Guild-Hall that now is was builded and finished which Hall was first begun to be founded in the year 1411 and was not fully finished in twenty years after The ruines of the Old Court Hall in Alderman-Bury-Street yet appear which of late hath bin imployed as a Carpenters yard c. Then is the parish Church of St. Mâ—ry Aldermanbury a fair Church with a Church-yard and Cloyster adjoyning In the which Cloyster is hanged and fastned a Shanke-bone of a man as is said very great and larger by three inches and a half than that which hangeth in St. Laurence Church in the Iury for it is in length twenty Eight inches and a half of assise but not so hard and Steely like as the other for the same is Leight and somewhat pory and spongy This bone is said to be found amongst the bones of men removed from the Charnell house of Pauls or rather from the Cloyster of Pauls Church Beneath this Church have ye Gayspur-lane which runneth down to London Wall as is afore shewed In this lane at the North end thereof was of old time a house of Nuns which house being in great decay William Elsing Mercer in the year of Christ 1329. the third of Edward of the third began in place thereof the foundation of an Hospitall for sustentation of one hundred blind men Towards the erection whereof he gave his two houses in the Parishes of St. Alphage and our Blessed Lady in Aldermanbury Near Cripplegate This house was after called a Priory or Hospitall of St. Mary the Virgin founded in the year 1332. by W. Elsing for Canons Regular the which W. became the first Prior there In the same place where the aforesaid Elsing Spittle and priory were formerly scituated there is now newly erected a Colledge for the Clergy of London and Liberties thereof called by the name
where the Abbot of Garendon had an house or Cell called Saint Iames in the wall by Cripple-gate and certain Monks of their house were Chaplains there wherefore the Well belonging to that Cell or Hermitage was called Monks-well and the street of the well Monks-well street The East side of this street down against London wall and the South side thereof to Cripple-gate be of Cripple-gate Ward as is afore-shewed In this street by the corner of Monks-well street is the Bowyers Hall On the East side of Monks-well street be convenient Alms-houses twelve in number founded by Sir Ambrose Nicholas Salter Maior 1575. wherein he placed twelve poor and aged people rent-free having each of them seven pence the week and once the yeer each of them five sacks of Charcoals and one quartem of one hundred of Faggots of his gift for ever On the North side of the way turning towards Cripple-gate and even upon or close to London wall as it were are certain new erected Almes-houses six in number of the cost and gift of Mr. Robert Rogers Leather-Seller and very good maintenance allowed for ever to such people as are appointed to dwell in them Then in little VVood-street be seven proper Chambers in an Alley on the West side founded for seven poor people therein to dwell rent-free by Henry Barton Skinner Maior 1516. Now without the Postern of Cripple-gate first is the Parish Church of Saint Giles a very fair and large Church lately repaired after that the same was burned in the yeer 1545 the thirty seventh of Henry the Eighth by which mischance the Monuments of the dead in this Church are very few In VVhite Crosse-street King Henry the Fifth builded a fair house and founded there a Brotherhood of S. Giles to be kept which house had sometime been an Hospitall of the French Order by the name of Saint Giles without Cripple-gate In the reign of Edward the First the King having the Jurisdiction and pointing a Custos thereof for the Precinct of the Parish of Saint Giles c. which Hospitall being suppressed the lands were given to the Brotherhood for relief of the poor One Alley of divers Tenements over against the North wall of Saint Giles Church-yard was appointed to be Alms-houses for the poor wherein they dwelled rent-free and otherwise were releeved but the said Brotherhood was suppressed by Henry the Eighth since which time Sir Iohn Gresham Maior purchased the lands and gave part thereof to the maintenance of a Free School which he had founded at Holt a Market-town in Norfolk In Red Crosse-street on the West side from S. Giles Church-yard up to the said Crosse be many fair houses builded outward with divers Alleys turning into a large plot of ground of old time called the Iews Garden as being the only place appointed them in England wherein to bury their dead till the year 1177 the twenty fourth of Henry the Second that it was permitted them after long suit to the King and Parliament at Oxford to have a speciall place assigned them in every quarter where they dwelled On the East side of this Red Crosse-street be also divers fair houses up to the Crosse and there is Beech-lane peradventure so called of Nicholas de la Beech Lievtenant of the Tower of London put out of that office in the thirteenth of Edward the Third This Lane stretcheth from Red Crosse-street to VVhite Crosse-street replenished not with Beech trees but with beautifull houses of Stone Brick and Timber Amongst the which was of old time a great house pertaining to the Abbot of Ramsey for his lodging when he repaired to the City it is now called Drewry House of Sir Drew Drewry who dwelt there On the North side of this Beech-lane towards VVhite Crosse street the Drapers of London have lately builded eight Alms-houses of Brick and Timber for eight poor widows of their own Company whom they placed there rent-free Then is Golding-lane Richard Gallard of Islington Esquire Citizen and Painter-Stainer of London founded thirteen Alms-houses for so many poor people placed in them rent-free He gave to the poor of the same Alms-houses two pence the peece weekly and a load of Charcoals among them yeerly for ever He left fair lands about Islington to maintain his Foundation T. Hayes sometime Chamberlain of London in the latter time of Henry the Eighth married Elizabeth his daughter and heir which Hayes and Elizabeth had a daughter named Elizabeth married to Iohn Ironmonger of London Mercer who had the ordering of the Alms-people On the West side of Red Crosse-street is a street called the Barbican because sometime there stood on the North side thereof a Burghkenning or VVatch-tower of the City called in some language a Barbican as a Bikening is called Beacon This Burgh-kenning by the name of the Mannour of Base Court was given by Edward the Third to Robert Ufford Earl of Suffolk and was afterward pertaining to Peregrine Barty Lord VVilloughby of Ersby Next adjoyning to this is one other great house called Garter Place sometime builded by Sir Thomas VVrithe or VVrithesly Knight alià s Garter principall King of Arms second son of Sir Iohn VVrithe Knight alià s Garter and was Uncle to the first Thomas Earl of Southampton Knight of the Garter and Chancellor of England He built this house and in the top thereof a Chappell which he dedicated by the name of S. Trinitatis in Alto. Of the Twentieth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of LONDON callâ—d Aldersgate Ward THe Next is Aldersgate Ward taking name of that North Gate of the City this Ward also consisteth oâ— divers Streets and Lanes lying as well within the Gate and Wall as without And first to speak of that part within the Gate thus it is the East part thereof joyneth unto the West part of Cripplegate Ward in Engain lane or Maiden lane It beginneth on the North side of that Lane at Staining lane End runneth up from the Haberdashers Hall to St. Mary Staining Church and by the Church East winding almost to Wood Street and West through Oate lane and then by the South side of Bacon house in Noble-Street back again by Lilipot lane which is also of that ward to Maiden lane and so on that North side West to Saint Iohn Zacharies Church and to Foster lane Now on the south side of Engain or Maiden lane is the West side of Gutherons lane to Kery lane and Kery lane it self which is of this ward and back again into Engain lane by the North side of the Goldsmiths Hall to Foster lane are almost wholly of this Ward which beginneth in the South toward Cheap on the East side by the North side of Saint Fosters Church and runneth down North West by the East end of Engain lane by Lilipot lane and Oate lane to Noble-Street and through that by Shelly house of old time so called as belonging to the Shellies Sir Thomas Shelley Knight was owner thereof in the first of Henry the fourth It
old Fishstreet This Fryday-street is of Bread-street Ward on the East side from over against the North-East corner of Saint Matthews Church and on the West side from the South corner of the said Church down as aforesaid In this Fryday-street on the West side thereof is a Lane commonly called Mayden Lane or Distaffe Lane corruptly for Distar Lane which runneth West into the old Exchange and in this Lane is also one other Lane on the South side thereof likewise called Distar Lane which runneth down to Knight-Rider street or Old Fish-street And so be the bounds of this whole Ward Monuments to be noted here first at Bread-street corner the north-North-East end 1595 of Thomas Tmolioson causing in the High street of Cheap a Vault to be digged and made there was sound at fifteen foot deep a fair payement like unto that above ground and at the further end at the Channel was found a Tree sawed into five steps which was to step over some Brook running out of the West towards Walbrooke and upon the edge of the said Brook as it seemeth there were found lying along the bodies of two great Trees the ends whereof were then sawed off and firm Timber as at the first when they fell part of the said Trees remain yet in the ground undigged It was all forced ground untill they went past the Trees aforesaid which was about seventeen foot deep or better Thus much hath the ground of this City in that place been raised from the main Next to be noted the most beautiful Frame of fair Houses and Shops that be within the Walls of London or else where in England commonly called Goldsmiths Row betwixt Bread-street end and the Crosse in Cheap but is within this Bread-street Ward Then for Watheling-street which Leyland calleth Atheling or Noble-street but since he sheweth no reason why I rather take it to be so named of the great High-way of the same calling True it is that at this present the Inhabitants thereof are wealthy Drapers Retailers of Wollen Cloths both Broad and Narrow of all sorts more than in any one street of this City Of the Old Exchange I have noted in Faringdon Ward wherefore I passe down to Knight-Riders street whereof I have also spoken in Cordwayner street Ward But in this part of the said Knight-Riders street is a Fish-market kept and therefore called Old Fish-street for a difference from New Fish-street In this Old Fishstreet is one Row of small Houses placed along in the middest of Knight-Riders-street which Row is also of Bread-street Ward These Houses now possessed by Fishmongers were at the first but moveable Boards or Stalls set out on Market-daies to shew their fish there to be sold but procuring Licence to set up Sheds they grew to shops and by little and little to tall Houses of three or four Stories in height and now is called Fish-street Walter Turke Fishmonger Mayor 1349 had two Shops in Old Fish-street over against Saint Nicholas Church the one rented at five shillings the year the other four shillings Bread-street so called of Bread sold there as I said is now wholly inhabited by rich Marchants and divers fair Inns be there for good receit of Carriers and other Travellers to the City On the East side of this street at the corner of Watheling street is the comely Church of Alhâ—llowes in Bread-street On the same side is Salters Hall with six Alms-houses in number builded for poor decayed Brethren of that Company This Hall was burned in the year 1539 and again re-edified Lower down on the same side is the Parish Church of Saint Mildred the Virgin Out of this Bread-street on the same side is Basing Lane a part whereof as is afore shewed is of this Ward but how it took the name of Basing I have not read In the twentieth year of Richard the second the same was called the Bake-house whether meant of the Kings Bake-house or of Bakers dwelling there and baking Bread to serve the Market in Bread-street where the Bread was sold I know not but sure I am I have not read of Basing or of Gerrard the Gyant to have any thing there to do On the South side of this Lane is one great House of old time builded upon arched Vaults and with arched Gates of Stone brought from Cane in Normandy the same is now a common Ostrey for receit of Travellers commonly and corruptly called Gerrards Hall of a Giant said to have dwelled there In the high roofed Hall of this House sometime stood a large Firr-pole which reached to the roof thereof and was said to be one of the staâ—es that Gerrard the Gyant used in the Wars to run withal there stood also a Ladder of the same length which as they said served to ascend to the top of the staff Of later years this Hall is altered in building and divers rooms are made in it Notwithstanding the Pole is removed to once corner of the Hall and the Ladder hanged broken upon a Wall in the yard Now on the West side of Breadstreet amongst divers fair and large Houses for Marchants and fair Inns for Passengers had ye one Prison-house pertaining to the Sheriffs of London called the Compter in Bread-street but in the year 1555 the Prisoners were removed from thence to one other new Compter in Wood-street provided by the Cities purchase and builded for that purpose the cause of which remove was this Richard Husband Pasteler Keeper of this Compter in Breadstreet being a willful and head-strong man dealt for his own advantage hard with the prisoners under his charge having also servants such as himself liked best for their bad usage and would not for any complaint be reformed whereupon in the year 1550 Sir Rowland Hill being Mayor by the assent of a Court of Aldermen he was sent to the Goal of Newgate for the cruel handling of his prisoners and it was commanded to the Keeper to set those Irons on his leggs which are called the Widdows Alms These he ware from Thursday till Sunday in the afternoon and being by a Court of Aldermen released on the Tuesday was bound in an hundred Marks to observe from thence forth an Act made by the Common Councel for the ordering of prisoners in the Compters all which notwithstanding he continued as afore For being on a Jury to enquire against a Sessions of Goal delivery in the year 1552 it was found that the Prisoners were still hardly dealt with all for their achates and otherwise as also that Thieves and Strumpets were there lodged for four pence the night whereby they might be safe from searches that were made abroad for the which enormities and other not needfull to be recited he was indicted at that Session but did rub it out and could not be reformed till this remove of the prisoners for the House in Bread-street was his own by Lease or otherwise so that he could not be put from it Now in Friday-street so called of
Fishmongers dwelling there and serving Frydays Market on the East side is a small Parish Church commonly called Saint John Evangelist The Monuments therein be of John Dogget Merchant-Taylor one of the Sheriffs in the year 1509. Then lower down is another Church of Saint Margaret Moyses so called as seemeth of one Moyses that was Founder or new Builder thereof In this Distar Lane on the North side thereof is the Cordwayners or Shoomakers Hall which Company were made a Brotherhood or Fraternity in the eleventh of Henry the fourth Of the Twentie third Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Queen-hithe Ward NExt unto Bread-street Ward on the South side thereof is Queen-Hith Ward so called of a Water-gate or Harborow for Boats Lighters and Barges and was of old time for Ships at what time the Timber Bridge at London was drawn up for the passage of them to the said Hith as to a principal Strand for landing and unlading against the middest and heart of the City this Ward beginneth in the East in Knight-Riders-street on the South side thereof at the East end of the Parish Church called the Holy Trinity and runneth West on the South side to a Lane called Lambert Hill which is the length of the Ward in Knight-Riders street out of the which street are divers Lanes running South to Thames street and are of this Ward the first is Trinity Lane which runneth down by the West end of Trinity Church Then is Spuren Lane or Spooners Lane now called Huggen Lane Then Bread-street Hill Then Saint Mary Mounthaunt out of the which Lane on the East side thereof is one other Lane turning East through St. Nicholas Olaves Church-yard to Bread-street Hill This Lane is called Finimore Lane or Five foot Lane because it is but five foot in breadth at the West end in the middest of this Lane runneth down one other Lane broader South to Thames street I think the same to be called Desborne Lane for we read of such a Lane to have been in the Parish of Saint Mary Summerset in the twenty two of Edward the third where there is said to ly between the Tenement of Edward de Mountacute Knight on the East part and the Tenement sometime pertaining to William Gladwine on the West one plot of ground containing in length towards Thames street twenty five foot c. Last of all have ye Lambart Hill so called of one Lambart owner thereof and this is the farthest West part of this Ward First in Knight-Riders street is the small Parish Church of the Holy Trinity lately very old and in danger of down falling Collections were made for the repairing thereof but they would not stretch so far until a general means was made as appeareth by a publick notice thereof declared in the said Church Towards the West end of Knight-Riders street is the Parish Church of Saint Nicholas Cold Abbey a proper Church somewhat ancient as appeareth by the waies raysed there about so that men are forced to descend into the body of the Church it hath been called of many Colden Abbey of some Cold Abbey or Cold Bay and so have the most ancient Writings as standing in a cold place as Cold Harbor and such like the Steeple or tall Tower of this Church with the South I le hath been of later building to wit the first of Richard the second when it was meant that the whole old Church should have been new builded as appeareth by the Arching begun on the East side the Steeple under the which in the Stone work the Armes of one Buckland Esquire and his Wife Daughter to Beaupere are cut in Stone and also are in the Glasse Windows whereby it appeareth he was the Builder thereof and Repairer of the residue In Trinity Lane on the West side thereof is the Painter Stainers Hall for so of old time were they called but now that workmanship of Staining is departed and out of use in England Lower down in Trinity Lane on the East side thereof was sometime a great Messuage pertaining unto Iohn Earl of Cornwall in the fourteenth of Edward the third On Bread-street Hill down to the Thames on both sides be divers fair Houses inhabited by Fishmongers Cheesemongers and Merchants of divers Trades on the West side whereof is the Parish Church of St. Nicholas Olave a convenient Church The next is Old Fish-street Hill a passage so called which also runneth down to Thames street In this Lane on the East side thereof is the one end of Finimore or Five foor Lane On the West side of this Old Fish-street Hill is the Bishop of Hereford's Inne or lodging an ancient House and large rooms builded of Stone and Timber which sometime belonged to the Mounthaunts in Norfolke Radulphus de Mayden-stone Bishop of Hereford about the year one thousand two hundred thirty four bought it of the Mounthaunts and gave it to the Bishops of Hereford his Successors Charles both Bishop of Hereford and Chancellour of the Marches about the year 1517 repaired it since the which time the same is greatly ruined and is now divided into many small Tenements The Hall and principall Rooms are in House to make Sugar-Loaves c. Next adjoyning is the Parish Church of Saint Mary de Monte also or Mounthaunt this is a very small Church and at the first builded to be a Chappel for the said House of the Mounthaunts and for Tenements thereunto belonging On the East side of this Old Fish-street Hill is one great House now letten out for Rent which House sometime was one of the Halls pertaining to the Company of Fishmongers at such time as they had six Hall-Motes or Meeting places namely twain in Bridge-street or New Fish-street twain in Old Fish-street whereof this was one and twain in Stock-Fishmonger Row or Thames street as appeareth by a Record the twenty two of Richard the second Next Westward is one other Lane called Lambart Hill the East side wherof is wholly of this Ward and but half the West side to wit from the North end of the Black-smiths Hall Then in Thames street of this Ward and on the North side over against the Queens Hith is the Parish Church of Saint Michael a convenient Church but all the Monuments therein are defaced At the West end of that Church goeth up a Lane called Pyel-lane on the same North side at the South end of Saint Mary Mounthaunt Lane is the Parish Church of Saint Summerset over against the Broken-Wharfe Then is a small Parish Church of St. Peter called parva or little near unto Pauls Wharf In this Church no Monuments do remain At the West end thereof is a Lane called Saint Peters Hill but two Houses up that Lane on the East side is of this Ward and the rest is of Castle Baynards Ward On the South side of Thames street beginning again in the East among the Cooks the first in this Ward is the Signe of David the King Then is
a publick Lecture in Surgery to be read twice every week c. as is shewed else-where Towards the South is called the Lollards Tower and hath been used as the Bishops prison for such as were detected for opinions in Religion contrary to the Faith of the Church Adjoyning to this Lowlards Tower is the Parish Church of St. Gregory appointed to the Petty Chanons of Pauls Of the Twentie fifth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Farringdon Ward without or Extra THe farthest West-ward of this City being the twenty fifth Ward of London but without the Walls is called Farringdon without and was of old time part of the other Faringdon within until the seventeenth of Richard the second that it was devided and made twain by the names of Faringdon Intra and Faringdon Extra as is afore shewed Touching Ornaments and Antiquities in this Ward First betwixt the said Newgate and the Parish of St. Sepulchres is a way towards Smithfield called Gilt-Spur or Knight-Riders street of the Knights and other riding that way into Smithfield replenished with buildings on both sides up to Pye-corner a place so called of such a Sign sometimes a fair Inne for receipt of Travellers but now divided into Tenements and over against the said Pye-corner lyeth Cock-lane which runneth down to Oldburn Conduit Beyond this Pye-corner lyeth VVest Smithfield compassed about with buildings at first on the South side following the right hand standeth the large Hospital of St. Bartholmews founded by Rahere the first Prior of Saint Bartholmewes thereto near adjoyning in the year 1102. Alfune that had not long before builded the Parish Church of Saint Giles without Creplegate became first Hospitelar or Proctor for the poor of this House and went himself daily to the Shambles and other Markets where he Begged the Charity of devout people for their relief promising to the liberall givers and that by alledging Testimonies of the holy Scripture reward at the hands of God Henry the third granted to Katherine late Wife to VVilliam Hardell twenty foot of Land in length and breadth in Smithfield next to the Chappel of St. Bartholomew to build a Recluse or Ankorage commanding the Mayor and Sheriffs of London to assign the said twenty foot to the said Katherine the eleventh of Henry the third the foundation of this Hospital for the poor and diseased and their special sustentation was confirmed by Edward the third the twenty sixth of his Reign It was governed by a Master and eight Brethren being Priests for the Church and four Sisters to see the poor served This Hospitall was valued at the suppression in the year 1539 the thirty one of Henry the eighth to five and thirty pounds six shillings seven pence yearly The Church remaineth a Parish Church to the Tenents dwelling in the Precinct of the Hospital But in the year 1546 on the thirteenth of Ianuary the Bishop of Rochester preaching at Pauls Crosse declared the gift of the said King to the Citizens for relieving of the poor which contained the Church of the Grey Fryers the Church of Saint Bartholomew with the Hospital the Messuages and appurrenances in Gilt-Spur aliàs Knight-Riders street Briton street Peter Key in the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen in old Fish-street and in the Parish of Saint Bennet Huda Linie-hurst or Limehost in the Parish of Stebunheth c. Then also were Orders devised for relief of the poor the Inhabitants were all called to their Parish Churches where by Sir Richard Dobbs then Mayor their several Aldermen or other grave Citizens they were by eloquent Orations perswaded how great and how many Commodities would ensue unto them and their City if the poor of divers sorts which they named were taken from out their streets Lanes and Alleys and were bestowed and provided for in Hospitals abroad c. Therefore was every man moved liberally to grant what they would impart towards the preparing and furnishing of such Hospitals and also what they would contribute weekly towards their maintenance for a time which they said should not be past one year or twain until they were better furnished of endowment To make short every man granted liberally according to his ability Books were drawn of the Relief in every Ward of the City towards the new Hospitals and were delivered by the Major to the Kings Commissioners on the seventeenth of February and order was taken therein at the six and twenty of Iuly In the year 1552 the repairing of the Gray Fryers House for poor Fatherless Children was taken in hand and also in the latter end of the same Moneth began the repairing of this Hospitall of St. Bartholmew and was of new endowed and furnished at the charges of the Citizens On the East side of this Hospital lyeth Duck-lane which runneth out of Smithfield South to the North end of Little Britain street On the East side of this Duck-lane and also of Smithfield lyeth the late dissolved Priory of St. Bartholmew founded also by Rahere a pleasant witted Gentleman and therefore in his time called the Kings Minstrel about the year of Christ 1102. He founded it in a part of the before named Moorish ground which was therefore a common Lay-stall of all filth that was to be voided out of the City He placed Canons there himself became their first Prior and so continued till his dying day and was there buried in a fair Monument renewed afterwards by Prior Bolton To this Priory King Henry the second granted the priviledge of a Faire to be kept yearly at Bartholomew-tyde for three dayes to wit the Eve the Day and the next Morrow to the which the Clothiers of England and Drapers of London repaired and had their Boothes and standings within the Church-yard of this Prioty closed in with Walls and Gates locked every night and watched for safety of Mens Goods and Wares a Court of Pipepowders was daily during the Faire holden for debts and Contracts On the North side of this Priory is the lane truly called Long which reacheth from Smithfield to Aldersgate-street This Lane is now lately builded on both the sides with Tenements for Brokers Tiplers and such like the rest of Smithfield from Long lane end to the Barres is inclosed with Inns Brew-houses and large Tenements On the West side is Chicken-lane down to Cow-bridge then be the Pens or Folds so called of Sheep there parted and penned up to be sold on the Market dayes Then is Smithfield Pond which of old time in Records was called Horse-Poole for that men watered Horses there and was a great water In the sixth of Henry the fifth a new Building was made in the West part of Smithfield betwixt the said Pool and the River of the Wells or Turnmill-brook in a place then called the Elmes for that there grew many Elm-Trees and this had bin the place of Execution for offenders since the which time the building there hath bin so increased that now remaineth not one Tree growing Amongst
South by the Prison of the Fleet into Fleet-street by Fleet-bridge Next out of the high street turneth down a Lane called the Little Bayly which runneth down to the East end of St. Georges Lane The next is Sea-cole-lane I think called Limeburners Lane of burning Lime there with Sea-cole For we read in Record of such a Lane to have bin in the Parish of St. Sepulchre and there yet remaineth in this Lane an Alley called Lime-burners Alley Near unto this Sea-cole-lane in the turning towards Oldbourne-Conduit is Turn-again-lane or rather as in a Record of the fifth of Edward the third Wind-again-lane for that it goeth down West to Fleet Dike from whence men must turn again the same way they came for there it is stopped Then the high street turneth down Snow-hill to Holdbourne Conduit and from thence to Ouldbourn-bridge beyond the which Bridge on the left hand is Shooe-lane by the which men passe from Ouldbourne to Fleet street by the Conduit there In this Shooe-lane on the left hand is one old House called Oldbourn-Hall it is now letten out into divers Tenements On the other side at the very corner standeth the Parish Church of Saint Andrew From this Church to St. Andrew up Oldbourn-hill be divers fair builded Houses amongst the which on the left hand there standeth three Inns of Chancery whereof the first adjoyning unto Crook-horn-Alley is called Thavies Inne and standeth opposite to Ely House Then is Fewter-lane which stretcheth South into Fleet-street by the East end of St. Dunstanes Church and is so called of Fewters or idle people lying there as in a way leading to Gardens but the same is now of later years on both sides builded thorow with many fair Houses and in the wast grounds and Gardens betwixt Shooe-lane and Fewter-lane there are now many fair convenient Houses built by the Company of the Goldsmiths as also a street called New-street betwixt Aldersgate and Redcrosse-street Beyond this Fewters Lane is Baynards Inne alià s Mackworths Inne which is of the Chancery Then is Staple-Inne also of the Chancery but whereof so named I am ignorant the same of late is for a great part thereof fair builded and not a little augmented And then at the Barres endeth this Ward without Newgate Without Ludgate on the right hand or North side from the said Gate lyeth the Old Bayley as I said then the high street called Ludgate-hill down to Fleet-Lane in which Lane standeth the Fleet a Prison-house so called of the Fleet or water running by it and sometime flowing about it but now vaulted over Then also against the South end of Shooe-lane standeth a fair Water-Conduit whereof William East field sometime Mayor was Founder for the Mayor and Commonalty of London being possessed of a Conduit Head with divers Springs of water gathered thereunto in the Parish of Padington and the water conveyed from thence by Pipes of Lead towards London unto Teyborn where it had lain by the space of six years and more the Executors of Sir Willâ—am Eastfield obtained Licence of the Mayor and Communalty for them in the year 1453. with the Goods of Sir William to convey the said Water first in Pipes of Lead into a Pipe begun to be laid besides the great Conduit Head at Maribone which stretcheth from thence unto a separall late before made against the Chappel of Rounseval by Charing-Crosse and no further and then from thence to convey the said water into the City and there to make Receit or Receits for the same unto the Common-weale of the Commonalty to wit the poor to drink the rich to dresse their Meats which water was by them brought thus into Fleet-street to a Standard which they had made and finished 1471. From this Conduit up to Fewters Lane and further is the Parish Church of St. Dunstane called in the West for difference from Saint Dunstane in the East Next beyond this Church is Cliffords Inne sometime belonging to Robert Clifford by gift of Edward the second Somewhat beyond this Cliffords Inne is the South end of Newstreet or Chancelor Inne on the right hand whereof is Sergeants-Inne called in Chancery lane And then next was sometime the House of the converted Iews founded by King Henry the third in place of a Jews House to him forfeited in the year 1233. and the seventeenth of his Reign who builded there for them a fair Church now used and called the Chappel for the Custody of Rolles and Records of Chancery it standeth not far from the old Temple and the new in the which House all such Jews and Infidels as were converted to the Christian Faith were ordained and appointed under an honest rule of life sufficient maintenance whereby it came to passe that in short time there were gathered a great number of Converts which were baptized instructed in the Doctrine of Christ and there lived under a learned Christian appointed to govern them since the which time to wit in the year 1290. all the Jews in England were banished out of the Realm whereby the number of Converts in this place was decayed and therefore in the year 1377. this House was annexed by Parent to William Burstall Clark Custos Rotulorum or Keeper of the Roâ—s of the Chancery by Edward the third in the fifty one year of his Reign and this first Master of the Rolls was sworn in Westminster-Hall at the I able of Marble-stone since the which time that House hath bin commonly called the Rolls in Chancery-Lane On the West side sometime was an House pertaining to the Prior of Nectoâ— Park a House of Canons in Lincolnshire this was commonly called Hereflete Inne and was a Brew-house but now fair builded for the six Clerks of the Chancery and standeth over against the said House called the Rolls and near unto the Lane which now entreth Fickets Croft or Fickets field Then is Shere-lane opening also into Fickets field hard by the Barres Next is Bride-lane and therein Bridewell of old time the Kings House for the Kings of this Realm have bin there lodged and till the ninth of Henry the third the Courts were kept in the Kings House wheresoever he was lodged as may appear by ancient Records whereof there are many and for example have set forth one in the Chapter or Towers and Castles King Henry the eighth builded there a stately and beautiful House of new for receit of the Emperor Charles the fifth who in the year of Christ 1522. was lodged himself at the Black-Fryers but his Nobles in this new builded Bridewell a Gallery being made out of the House over the Water and thorow the Wall of the City into the Emperors Lodging at the Black-Fryers King Henry himself often times lodged there also as namely in the year 1525. a Parliament being then holden in the Black-Fryers he created States of Nobility there In the year 1553. the seventh of Edward the sixth the tenth of April sir George Barne being Mayor of this City was sent for
that it may seem sufficient to receive any multitudes of people whatsoever Because therefore Bishop Maurice carried a mind beyond all measure in this project he transmitted the cost and charge of so laborious a piece of work unto those that came after In the end when B. Richard his Successor had made over all the Revenues belonging unto the Bâ—shoprick to the building of this Cathedrall Church sustaining himself and his family otherwise in the mean while he seemed in a manner to have done just nothing notwithstanding that he spent his whole substance thereabout and yet small effects came thereof The West part as also the Cross Isle are very spacious high built and goodly to be seen by reason of such huge Columns and are marvellously beautified with an arch'd rooâ— of stone Where these four parts crosse one another meet in one there ariseth up a mighty large lofty Tower upon which stood a spire Steeple cover'd with lead mounting up to a wonderful altitude for it was no less than five hundred and five and thirty foot high from the ground which in the year 1087 was set on fire by lightning and burnt with a great part of the City but being rebuilt was afterwards fi'rd again with lightening about an hundred and fifty years ago and was not perfectly repair'd ever since The measure and proportion of this stately structure shall be here set down out of an old authentick Writer who saith that Saint Pauls Church containeth in length 690 foot the breadth thereof is 130 foot the height of the West arch'd roof from the ground carrieth 102 foot and the new fabrique from the ground is 88 foot high c. The ground belonging to this great Temple in nature of a Coemitery or Church yard was of vast expansion for it reach'd North as far as St. Nicholas market place West almost as far as Ludgate and South near to Baynards Castle Now as they say that Rome was not built in a day no more was this great and glorious Sanctuary but a long tract of time and some Ages pass'd before it came to be entirely compleated and made a perfect Crosse which is the exact shape of it Nor did there want many advantages according to the Genius of those times to advance the work for persons of good rank besides pecuniary Contributions did labour themselves therein in their own persons thinking to do God Almighty good service to have a hand in rearing up his Temple Besides It was an ordinary thing for the ghostly Father to lay penances upon some penitentiaries as Masons Carpenters Bricklayers Playsterers and others to work so many daies gratis in the building before they could get an absolution Insomuch that it may be said that as Pauls Church was partly â—ailt by the sinnes of the people so it is now destroyed by the sins of the people That there stood in old time a Fane or Pagan Temple to Diana in this place as before was hinted some have more than only conjectur'd for there are Arguments to make this conjecture good Certain old houses adjoyning are in the ancient Records of the Church call'd Diana's Chamber and in the Church-yard while Edward the first raign'd an incredible number of Ox-heads were found as we find in our Annals which the common sort at that time wondred at as the sacrifices of the Gentiles and the learned know that Taurapolia were celebrated to the honour of Diana But ever since this Temple was erected it hath been the See of the Bishops of London and the first Bishop it had under the English some hundred years after Theon the Brâ—tâ—sh Bishop was Melitus a Roman consecrated by Austin Archbishop of Canterbury in honour of which Austin though flat against the Decree of Pope Gregory the great the Ensigns of the Archbishoprick and the Metropolitan See were translated from London to Canterbury Within this grand Cathedral there lieth Saint Erkenwald as also Sebba King of the East Saxons who gave over his Kingdom to serve Christ King Etheldred who was an oppresser rather than a Ruler of this Kingdom cruel in the beginning wretched in the middle and shameful in his end so outragious he was in connivency to parricides so infamous in his flight and effeminacy and so disastrrous in his death Henry Lacy Earl of Lincoln Iohn of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Sir Simon de Burlie a right noble Knight of the Garter executed by encroch'd authority without the Kings assent Sir Iohn de Beauchamp Lord VVarden of the Cinque-ports Iohn Lord Latimer Sir Iohn Mason Knight William Harbert Earl of Pembrook Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England a man of a deep reach and exquisite judgement Sir Philip Sidâ—ey Sir Francis Walsingham two famous Knights Sir Christopher Hatton Lord Chancellor of England and a great many Worthies more lodge there until the Resurrection Besides this Church there is not any other work of the English Saxons extant in London for why they continued not long in perfect peace considering that the VVest Saxons subdued the East Saxons and London began to be tributary to the Mercians Scarcely were these civil Wars hush'd when a new tempest brake out of the North I mean the Danes who pitiously tore in pieces this whole Countrey and shook this City very sore for the Danes brought her under subjection but Alfred recover'd her out of their hands and after he had repair'd her he gave her unto Ethelred Earl of the Mercians who had married his daughter yet those wastful depopulators did what they could afterwards to win her by siege but Canutus who specially by digging a new Channel attempted to turn away the Thames from her though the labour was lost the Citizens did still manfully repel the force of the enemy yet were they alarm'd and terrified ever and anon by them until they lovingly receiv'd and admitted as their King VVilliam Duke of Normandy whom God design'd to be born for the good of England against those so many spoilers presently whereupon the winds were layed the clouds dispell'd and golden daies shone upon her since which time she never sustain'd any signal calamity but through the special favour and indulgence of Heaven and bounty of Princes obtain'd very large and great immunities for she began to be call'd the Kings Chamber and so flourished anew with fresh Trade and concourse of Marchants that William of Malmsbury who liv'd nere those times term'd it A noble and wealthy City replenish'd with rich Citizens and frequented with the Commerce of Occupiers and Factors coming from all parts Fitz-Stephen living also in those daies hath left in writing that London at that time counted 122 Parish Churches and thirteen Convents or Monasteries of Religious Orders Moreover he relates that when a Muster was made of able men to bear Arms they brought into the field under divers Colours 40000 Foot and 20000 Horsemen London about this time began to display hâ—r wings and spread her train very wide
builded houses one that sometime belonged to the Prior of Monte Joves or Monastarie Cornute a Cell to Monte Joves beyond the Seas in Essex it was the Priors Inne when he repaired to this City Then a Lane that leadeth down by Northumberland House towards the Crossed Fryers as is afore shewed This Northumberland House in the Parish of St. Katherine Coleman belonging to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland in the 33. of Henrie the sixth but of late being left by the Earls the Gardens thereof were made into Bowling Alleys and other parts into Dicing-houses common to all commers for their money there to bowl recreate themselves But now of late so many Bowling Alleys and other houses for unlawful gaming have been raised in other parts of the City and Subburbs that this which was used to be the ancientest and only Rendezvouz of sport is left and forsaken of the Gamesters and therefore turned into a number of great Rents small Cottages for strangers and others At the East end of this Lane in the way from Aldgate toward the Crossed Friers of old time were certain Tenements called the Poor Jurie of Jewes dwelling there Next unto this Northumberland house is the Parish Church of St. Katherine called Coleman which addition of Coleman was taken of a great Haw-yard or Garden of old time called Coleman Haw in the Parish of the Trinity now called Christs Church And in the Parish of St. Katherine and All-saints called Coleman Church There are some handsome Tombs in this Church and particularly of Sir Henry Billingley Knight and Lord Mayor of London who was a Benefactor thereunto Then have ye Blanch Appleton whereof we read in the 13th of Edw. the first that a Lane behind the same Blanch Appleton was granted by the King to be inclosed and shut up This Blanch Appleton was a Mannor belonging to Sir Thomas Râ—â—os of Hamelake Knight the 7th of Rich the 2d standing at the North-East corner of Mart Lane so called of a priviledge sometime enjoyed to keep a Mart there long since discontinued and therefore forgotten so as nothing remaineth for memory but the name of Mart Lane and now corruptly termed Mark Lane Of the fourth Ward or Aldermanry of London called Limestreet Ward WE will now give a visit to Limestreet Ward which takes its denomination from the street and the street from making Lime there in times passed In Limestreet are divers fair Houses for Marchants and others there was sometime a Mansion house of the Kings called the Kings Artirce as it stands upon Record in the 14th of Edward the first but now grown out of knowledge We read also of another great House in the West side of Limestreet having a Chappel on the South and a Garden on the West belonging to the Lord Nevill which Garden is now called Green Yard of the Leaden Hall This House in the 9th of Rich. 2. pertained to Sir Simon Burley and Sir John Burley his Brother and of late the said House was taken down and the forefront thereof new builded of Timber by Hugh Offley Alderman At the North-west Corner of Limestreet was of old time one great Mesuage called Benbridges Inne Raph Holland Draper about the year 1452. gave it to John Gill Master and to the VVardens and Fraternity of Taylors and Linnen Armourers of St. John Baptist in London and to their successors for ever They did set up in places thereof a fair large frame of Timber containing in the high street one great house and before it to the corner of Limestreet three other Tenements the corner house being the largest and then down Limestreet divers handsome Tenements All which the Marchant-Taylors in the Raign of Edw. 6. sold to Stephen Kirton Marchant-Taylor and Alderman who gave with his Daughter Grisild to Nicholas Woodroffe the said great House with two Tenements before it in lieu of an hundred pounds and made it up in money three hundred sixty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence This worthy man and the Gentlewoman his Widow after him kept those houses down Limestreet in good reparations never put out but one Tenant took no fines nor raised rents for them which was ten shillings the piece yearly But whether that favour did over-live her Funeral the Tenants now can best declare the contrary The next is Leaden-Hall of which we read that in the year 1309. it belonged to Sir Hugh Nevil Knight and that the Lady Alice his Wife made a Feoffment thereof by the name of Leaden Hall with the Advousions of S. Peter on Cornhill and other Churches to Richard Earl of Arrundel and Surrey 1362. Moreover in the year 1380. Alice Nevil Widow to Sir Iohn Nevil Knight of Essex confirmed to Thomas Cogshall and others the said Mannor of Leaden-Hall and the advousions c. In the year 1384. Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford had the said Mannor And in the year 1408. Robert Rikeden of Essex and Margaret his Wife confirmed to Richard Whittington and other Citizens of London the said Mannor of Leaden Hall with the Appurtenances the Advousion of St. Peters Church S. Margaret Pattens c. And in the year 141â— the said Whitington and other confirmed the same to the Maior and Comminalty of London whereby it came to the possession of the City Then in the year 1443. the one and twenty of Henry the sixth Iohn Hatheyrley Maior purchased Licence of the said King to take up 200. fodder of Lead for the building of Water Conduits a common Granary and the Crosse in West Cheape more richly for the honour of the City In the year next following the Parson and Parish of St. Dunstane in the East of London seeing the Noble and mighty Man for the words be in the Grant Cùm Nobilis Potens vir Simon Eyre Citizen of London among other his works of piety effectually determined to erect build a certain Granary upon the soil of the same City at Leaden Hall of his own charges for the common utility of the said City to the amplifying and inlarging of the said Granary granted to Henry Frowick then Maior the Aldermen and Commonalty and their Successors for ever all their Tenements with the appurtenances sometime called the Horse Mill in Grasse-street for the annual Rent of four pounds c. Also certain evidences of an Alley and Tenements pertaining to the Horse Mill adjoyning to the said Leaden Hall in Grasse-street given by VVilliam Kingstone Fishmonger unto the Parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill do specifie the said Granary to be builded by the said Honourable and famous Marchant Simon Eyre sometime an Upholster and â—hen a Draper in the year 1419. He builded it of squared stone in form as now it sheweth with a fair and large Chappel in the East side of the Quadrant over the Porch of which he caused to be written Dextra Domini exaltavit me The Lords right hand exalted me Within the said Church on the North wall was written Honorandus
declared in Aldgate Ward In the year 1576. partly at the charges of the Parish of St. Andrew and partly at the charges of the Chamber of London a water-pump was raysed in the high street of Lime-street Ward neer unto Lime-street corner for the placing of the which Pump having broken up the ground they were forced to dig more than two fadome deep before they came to any main ground where they found a Hearth made of Britaine or rather Romane Tyle every Tyle half yard square and about two inches thick they found coal lying there also for that lying whole will never consume then digging one fadome in the main they found water sufficient made their Prall and set up the Pump which Pump with oft repairing and great charges to the Parish continued not four and twenty years but being rotted was taken up and a new one set in the place in the year 1600. Thus much for the High-street In Saint Mary street had ye of old time a Parish Church of Saint Mary a Virgin Saint Ursula and the 11000 Virgins which Church was commonly called Saint Mary at the Axe of the Signe of an Axe over against the East end thereof or Saint Mary Pellipar of a plot of ground lying on the North side thereof pertaining to the Skinners in London This Parish about the year 1565. was united to the Parish Church of Saint Andrew Under Shaft and so was Saint Mary at the Axe suppressed and letten out to be a Ware-house for a Marchant Against the East end of this Church was sometime a fair Well now turned to a Pump Also against the North end of this Saint Mary street was sometime one other Parish Church of Saint Augustine called Saint Augustine in the Wall for that it stood adjoyning to the Wall of the City and otherwise called Saint Augustines Papey or the poor as I have read in the Reign of Edward the third About the year 1430 in the Reign of Henry the sixth the same Church was allowed to the Brethren of the Papey the House of poor Priests whereof I have spoken in Aldgate Ward the Parishioners of this Church were appointed to the Parish Church of Alhallowes in the Wall which is in Broad street Ward and this Brotherhood called Papey being suppressed the Church of Saint Augustine was pulled down and in place thereof one Grey Apothecary builded a Stable a Hay-lost c. It is now a dwelling house those two Parish Churches both lying in the Ward of Lime-street being thus suppressed there is not any one Parish Church or place for Divine Service in that Ward but the Inhabitants thereof repair to Saint Peters in Cornhill Ward Saint Andrew in Aldgate Ward Alhallows in the Wall in Broad-street Ward and some to Saint Denys in Langbourne Ward Now because there hath been some question to what Ward this Church of Saint Augustine Papey should of right belong for the same hath been challenged by them of Aldgate Ward and without reason taken into Bishops-gate Ward from Lime-street Ward I am somewhat to touch it About 70 years since the Chamber of London granted a Lease of ground lying near London Wall in the Ward of Lime-street from the West of the said Church or Chappel of Saint Augustine Papey towards Bishops-gate c. on the which plot of ground the Leasee builded three fair Tenements and placed Tenants there these were charged to bear Scot and Lot and some of them to beaâ— Office in Lime street Ward all which they did willingly without grudging And when any suspected or disordered persons were by the Landlord placed there the Officers of Lime street Ward fetched them out of their Houses committed them to Ward procured their due punishments and banished them from thence whereby in short time that place was reformed and brought into good order which thing being noted by them of Aldgate Ward they moved their Alderman Sir Thomas Offley to call in those Houses to be of his Ward But Mr. Stow producing a fair Ledgier Book sometime pertaining to the late dissolved Priory of the Holy Trinity within Aldgate wherein were set down the just bounds of Aldgate Ward before Sir Thomas Offley Sir Rowland Hayward the Common-Councel and Ward-Mote Inquest of the said Lime street Ward Sir Thomas Offley gave over his Challenge and so that matter rested in good quiet until the year 1579. that Sir Richard Pype being Mayor and Alderman of Bishops-gate Ward challenged those Houses to be of his Ward whereunto without reason shewed Sir Rowland Hayward yeilded and thus is that side of the street from the North corner of Saint Mary street almost to Bishopsgate wherein is one plot of ground letten by the Chamberlaine of London to the Parish of Saint Martins Oteswich to be a Church-yard or burying-place for the dead of that Parish c. unjustly drawn and with-holden from the Ward of Lime-street as Master Stow avoncheth Of the Fifth Ward or Aldermanry of London called Bishopsgate-Ward THe Ward next in order is Bishopsgate-Ward whereof a part is without the Gate and of the Subburbs from the Barres by St. Mary Spittle to Bishopsgate and a part of Hounds-ditch almost half thereof also without the Wall of the same Ward Then within the Gate is Bishopsgate-street so called of the Gate to a Pump were sometime was a fair Well with two Buckets by the East end of the Parish Church of St. Martin Oteswich and then winding by the West corner of Leaden-Hall down Grasse-street to the corner over against Grasse-Church and these are the bounds of that Ward Monuments most to be noted are these The Parish-Church of St. Buttolph without Bishopsgate in a fair Church-yard adjoyning to the Town-Ditch upon the very Bank thereof but of old time inclosed with a comely Wall of Brick lately repaired by Sir William Allen Mayor in the year 1571 because he was born in that Parish where also he was buried An Anchoresse by Bishopsgate received forty shillings the year of the Sheriffs of London Next unto the Parish Church of St. Buttolph was a fair Inne for receipt of Travellers then an Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlem founded by Simon Fitz Mary one of the Sheriffs of London in the year 1246. He founded it to have been a Priory of Canons with Brethren and Sisters and King Edward the 3d granted a Protection for the Brethren called Milites beatae Mariae de Bethlem within the City of London the 14th year of his Raign It was an Hospital for distracted people Stephen Gennings Marchant-Taylor gave forty pounds toward purchase of the Patronage by his Testament 1523. The Mayor and Commonalty purchased the Patronage thereof with all the Lands and Tenements thereunto belonging in the year 1546. Now it shall not be amisse to insert here that memorable ancient deed of gift given to Bethelem or Bedlam by the foresaid Simon the Son of Mary as followeth To all the Children of our Mother holy Church to whom this present writing shall come
the West side but not so far on the East Then the aforesaid street from this Finkes Lane now Finch Lane runneth down by the Royal Exchange to the Stocks and to a place commonly called the Scalding-house or Scalding wicke but now Scalding Alley by the West side whereof under the Parish Church of St. Mildred runneth the course of VVallbrooke and these be the bounds of this Ward Here stands the Parish Church of Alhallowes in the Wall so called of standing close to the Wall of the City near Moorfields and over against Winchester house which was so vast and spacious a Mansion that it has been many years since cut into divers habitations For the Glasse-house stood in part of it the Spanish Ambassadour had another part And now of late the Excise Office hath bin kept in another part On the other side of the street among many proper Houses possessed for the most part by Curriers is the Carpenters Hall which Company was Incorporated in the seventeenth year of Edward the fourth Then East from the Curriers row is a long and high Wall of stone in the foresaid Winchester house enclosing the North side of a large Garden adioyning to as large an house builded in the Reigns of King Henry the eighth and of Edward the sixth by Sir William Powlet Lord Treasurer of England thorow his Garden which of old time consisted of divers parts now united was sometimes a fair foot way leading by the West end of the Augustine Fryars Church straight North and opened somewhat West from Alhallowes Church against London Wall towards Mooregate which foot-way had Gates at either end locked up every night but now the same way being taken into those Gardens the Gates are closed up with Stone whereby the people are enforced to go about by Saint Peters Church and the East end of the said Fryers Church and all the said great place and Garden of Sir William Pawlet to London Wall and so to Moorgate This great House adjoyning to the Garden aforesaid stretcheth to the North corner of Broad-street and then turneth up Broad-street all that side to and beyond the East end of the said Friers Church It was builded by the said Lord Treasurer in place of Augustine Fryers House Cloyster and Gardens c. The Fryars Church he pulled not down but the West end thereof enclosed from the Steeple and Quire was in the year 1550 granted to the Dutch Nation in London to be their preaching place The other part namely the Steeple Quire and side Iles to the Quire adjoyning he reserved to houshold uses as for Stowage of Corn Coal and other thingâ— his Son and Heir Marquiss of VVinchester sold the Monuments of Noble men there buried in great number Paving stone and whatsoever which cost many thousand pounds for one hundred pounds and in place thereof made fair sâ—abling for horses He caused the Lead to be taken from the roofs and laid Tyle in place which exchange proved not so profitable as he looked for but rather to his disadvantage for there have been some remarkable judgements upon that Family since On the East side of this Broad street amongst other buildings on the back part of Gresham House which is in Bishopsgate street there are placed eight Alms-houses builded of Brick and Timber by Sir Thomas Gresham Knight for eight Almes-men which be now there placed rent-free and receive each of them by his gift six pound thirteen shillings four pence yearly for ever Next unto Pawlet House is the Parish Church of Saint Peter the poor so called for a difference from other of that name sometime peradventure a poor Parish but at this present there be many fair Houses possessed by rich Marchants and others In this little Church there be some fair Monuments one of Sir Thomas Lowe and another of Sir VVilliam Garaway with Iohn Lucas Esquire of Colchester Then next have ye the Augustine Fryers Church and Church-yard the entring thereunto by a South gate to the West Porch a large Church having a most fine spired Steeple small high and streight that there are few the like founded by Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex in the year one thousand two hundred fifty three Râ—egnald Cobham gave this Messuage in London to the enlarging thereof in the year one thousand three hundred fourty four Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex re-edified this Church in the year 1354 whose Body was there buried in the Quire The small spired Steeple of this Church was overthrown by tempest of wind in the year one thousand three hundred sixty two but was raised of new as still it might have stood had not private benefit the only devourer of Antiquity pull'd it down Both that goodly Steeple and all that East part of the Church hath lately been taken down and Houses for one mans commodity raised in the place whereby London hath lost so goodly an ornament and times hereafter may more talk of it This House was valued at fifty seven pounds and was surrendred the twelfth of November the 13 of Henry the 8. There were many great Monuments in this Fryers Church one of Edmond first son to Ioan mother to Richard the second Guy de Meryke Earl of Saint Paul Lucie Countesse of Kent Richard the great Earl of Arundel Surrey VVarren Sir Francis Atcourt Earl of Pembrooke Iohn Vere Earle of Oxford with Aubery de Vere his son the Lady of Bedford with Edward Duke of Buckingham and very many more persons of quality On the South side and at West end of this Church many fair houses are builded namely in Throgmorton street one very large and spacious builded in the place of old and small Tenements by Thomas Cromwel Master of the Kings Jewel-house after that Master of the Rolls then Lord Cromwell Knight Lord Privie Seal Vicar General Earl of Essex high Chamberlain of England c. This house being finished and having some reasonable plot of ground left for a Garden he caused the pales of the Gardens adjoyning to the North part thereof on a sudden to be taken down two and tweâ—ty foot to be measured forth-right into the North of every mans ground a Line there to be drawn a Trench to be cast a foundation laid and an high Brick Wall to be builded and this was suddenly and no warning given nor other answer but when any spake to the Surveyers of that work they said their Master Sir Thomas commanded them so to do so that no man durst go to argue the matter but each man lost his Land Thus the sudden rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves The Company of Drapers in London bought this House and now the same is their Common Hall This Company obtained of King Henry the sixth in the seventeenth of his Reign to be incorporate Iohn Gedney was chosen to be their first Master and the four Wardens were Iohn VVotton I. Darby Robert Breton and T. Cooke The Armes granted to the said
often had hapned in the City when the Hâ—uses were builded of Timber and covered with Reed and Straw Henry Fitz Allwine being Mayor it was Decreed That from thenceforth no man should build within the City but of some unto a certain height and to cover the same building with Slate or burnt Tyle This was the very cause of such stone Buildings whereof many have remâ—ined until out time that for gaining of ground they have been taken down and in place of some of them being low as but two Stories above the ground many Houses of four or five Stories high are placed From this Stone House down to the Stocks are divers large Houses especially for height â—or Merchants and Artificers On the South side of this High-street is the Parish Church of Saint Peter upon Cornhill which seemeth to be of an ancient building but not so anâ—ient as fame reporteth for it hath been lately repaired if not all new builded except the Steeple which is ancient The Rooâ— of this Church and Glazing was finished in the Reign of King Edward the fourth as appeareth by Armes of Noble men and Aldermen of London then living There remaineth in this Church a Table wherein it is written I know not by what Authority but of no late hand that King Lucius founded the same Church to be an Archbishops See Metropolitanâ— and chief Church of his Kingdom and that it so continued the space of four hundred years unto the coming of Augustine the Monk Now because many may be curious to be further acquainted therewith I have here inserted the same Verbatim as it is there recorded in the Table BE it known unto all men that the year of our Lord God 179 Lucius the first Christian King of this Land then called Britaine sounded the first Church in London that is to say the Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill and he founded there an Archbishops See and made that Church the Metropolitan and chief Church of this Kingdom and so endured the space of four hundred years unto the coming of St. Austin the Apostle of the English the which was sent into this Land by St. Gregory the Doctor of the Church in the time of King Ethilbert And then was the Archbishops See and Pall removed from the foresaid Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill unto Doreburniam that now is called Canterbury and there remaineth to this day And Millet the Monk which came into the Land with S. Austin was made this first Bishop of London and his See was made in Pauls Church And this King Lucius was the first Founder of St. Peters Church upon Cornhill and he reigned in this Land after Brute a thousand two hundred fourty five years and the year of our Lord God a hundred twenty four Lucius was Crowned King and the years of his Reign were seventy seven years and he was aâ—ter some Chronicle buried at London and after some Chronicle he was buried at Glocester in that place where the Order of St. Francis standeth now Joceline of Furnâ—is writeth that Thean or Theon the first Arch bishop of London in the Reign of Lucius builded the said Church by the aid of Câ—ran chief Butler to King Lucius and also that Etvâ—nus the second Archbishop builded a Library to the same adjoyning and conâ—erted many of the Druydes learned men in the Pagan Law to Christianity William Harrison discoursing hereon more at large hath these very words There is a Controversy saith he moved among our Historiographers whether the Church that 〈◊〉 built at London stood at Westminster or in Cornhill For there is some cause why the Metropolitane Church should be thought to stand where St. Peters now doth by the space of four hundred and od years before it was removed to Canterbury by Austin the Monk if a man would lean to one side without any conference of the asseverations of the other But herein there may lurk some scruple for besides that St. Peters Church stood in the East end of the City and that of Apollo in the West the word Cornhil a denomination given of late so speak of to one street may easily be mistaken for Thorney For as the word Thorney proceedeth from the Saxons who called the West end of the City by that â—ame where Westminster now standeth because of the wildernesse and bushineâ—â—e of the soile so we do not read of any street in London called Cornhill before the Conquest of the Normans wherefore I hold with them which make Westminster to be the place where Lucius builded his Church upon the ruines of that Fane 264 years as Malmsbury saith before the coming of the Saxons and four hundred and eleven before the arrival of Augustine Read also his Appendix in Lib. fourth Pontif. where he noteth the time of the Saxons in the 444 of Grace and of Augustine in 596 of Christ which is a manifest account though some Copies have 499 for the one but not without-manifest corruption and error And now to return where we left True it is that a Library there was pertaining to this Parish Church of old time builded of Stone and of late repaired with Brick by the Executors of Sir Iohn Crosby Alderman as his Arms on the South end do witnesse This Library hath been of late time to wit within this seventy years well furnished of Books Iohn Leyland viewed and commended them but now those Books are gone and this place is occupied by a School-master and his Usher for a number of Scholers learning their Grammer Rules c. Notwithstanding before that time a Grammar School had been kept in this Parish as appeareth in the year a thousand four hundred twenty five We read that John Whitby was Rector and John Steward School-master there and in the five and twentieth of Henry the sixth it was Enacted by Parliament that four Grammer Schools in London should be maintained viz In the Parishes of Alhallowes in Thames street Saint Andrew in Oldburn Saint Peters upon Cornhill and Saint Thomas of Acres Then have ye the Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel for the antiquity thereof we find that Alnothus the Priest gave it to the Abbot and Covent of Covesham Raynold the Abbot and the Covent there did grant the same to Sparling the Priest in all measures as he and his Predecessors before had held it to the which Sparling also they granted all their Lands which they there had except certain Lands which Orgar le proud held of them and paid two shillings yearly For the which grant the said Sparling should yearly pay one mark of Rent to the said Abbot of Covesham and find him his lodging Salt Water and Fire when he came to London This was granted a thousand one hundred thirty three about the thirty four of Henry the first The fair new Steeple or Bell-Tower of this Church was begun to be builded in the year 1421 which being finished and a fair â—ing of five Bells therein placed a sixth Bell
up for passage of Ships with tops to the said Queen Hith Touching the ancient Customs of Billingsgate in the Reign of Edward the third every great Ship landing there paid for standage two pence every little Ship with orelocks a peny the lesser Boat called a Battle a half-peny of two quarters of Corn measured the King was to have one farthing of a Combe of Corn a peny of every weight going out of the City a half peny of two quarters of Sea-Coals measured a farthing and of every Tun of Ale going out of England beyond the Seas by Marchants strangers four pence of every thousand Herrings a farthing except the Franchises c. Next to this is Sommers Key which likewise took that name of one Sommer dwelling there as did Lyon Key of one Lyon owner thereof and since of the Signe of the Lyon Then is there a fair Wharf or Key called Buttolphs-gate by that name so called in the time of William the Conqueror and before him of Edward the Confessor Next is the Parish of St. Buttolph a comely Church and hath had many fair Monuments therein now much defaced and gone Among others there is William Rainwel and his Sonne who gave a Stone-House to be a Vestry to that Church with Lands and Tenements to discharge Billingsgate Dowgate and Algate of fifteens granted to the King and other Tolls this was about the year 1426. This Parish of St. Buttolph is no great thing notwithstanding divers strangers are there harboured as may appear by a presentment not many years since made of strangers Inhabitants in the Ward of Billingsgate in these words In Billingsgate Ward were one and fifty Housholds of strangers whereof thirty of theâ—e Housholders inhabited in the Parish of St. Buttolph in the chief and principal Houses where they give twenty pounds a year for an house letten used to be let before for four marks the nearer they dwell to the Water side the more they give for Houses and within 30. years before there was not in the whole Ward above three Nether landers at which time there was within the said Parish levied for the help of the poor seven and twenty pounds by the year but since they came so plentifully thither there cannot be gathered above eleven pounds the strangers being exempted to contribute to such charges as other Citizens do in regard they much advance the Trade of the City On the North side is Bosse Alley so called of a Bosse of Spring-water continually running which standeth by Billingsgate against this Alley and was sometimes made by the Executors of Richard Whittington Then is St. Mary Hill ane which runneth up North from Billingsgate to the end of St. Margaret Patteâ—ns commonly called Rood-lane and the greatest half of that Lane is also of Billingsgate Ward In this St. Mary Hill lane is the 〈◊〉 Parish Church of St. Mary on the Hill called so because of the ascent from Billingsgate In the year 1497. in the Moneth of April as labourers digged for the foundation of a Wall within the Church of St. Mary Hill near unto Billingsgate they found a Coffin of rotten Timber and therein the Corps of a Woman whole of skin and of bones undissevered with the joynts of her Arms plyable without breaking of the skin upon whose Sepulcher this was engraven Here lie the Bodies of Richard Hackney Fishmonger and Alice his Wife The which Richard was Sheriff in the fifteenth of Edward the second Her Body was kept above ground three or four dayes without noyance but then it waxed unsavory and was again buried This Lane on both sides is furnished with fair Houses for Marchants and hath at the North end thereof one other Lane called St. Margaret Pattens because of old time Pattens were usually there made and sold but of latter time this is called Rood Lane of a Rood there placed in the Church-yard of St. Margaret whilest the old Church was taken down and again new builded during which time the oblations made to this Rood were imployed towards building of the Church But in the year 1538. about the 23. of May in the morning the said Rood was found to have been in the night preceding by people unknown broken all to pieces together with the Tabernacle wherein it had bin placed Then have ye another Lane called Rother Lane or Red Rose Lane of such a signe there now commonly called Pudding Lane because the Butchers of East-Cheape have their Scalding-house for Hoggs there their Puddings with other fiâ—th of Beasts are voided down that way to their Dung-boats on the Thames In this Church you have the Sepulchers of sundry worthy men among other of Mr. Vandepute a very worthy Marchant whose Son Mr. Giles Vandepute was lately buried also there Then on the West side of St. Mary Hill Church is a Lane called Rope-lane of old and after Lucas-lane but now Love-lane Then have you the Parish of St. Andrew Hubbart in East-Cheape Then is there Butâ—olph-lane and afterwards the Church of St. George Buttolph-lane which though small hath divers Monuments Of the Tenth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Bridg-Ward within WE will direct ourâ— pace downward now and take a Survey of Bridge Ward within so called of London-Bridge which Bridge is a principal part of that Ward and beginning at the Stulps on the South end by Southwark runneth along the Bridge and North up Bridge-street commonly called of the Fish Market New Fish-street from Fish-street Hill up Grass-street to the North corner of Grass-Church All the Bridge is replenished on both the sides with large fait and beautiful buildings Inhabitants for the most part Rich Marchants and other wealthy Citizens Mercers and Haberdasherâ— In New Fish-street be Fishmongers and fair Taverns on Fish-street â—â—ill and Grasse-street men of divers Trades Grocers and Haberdashers In Grass-street have ye one fair Conduit of sweet water castellated with crest and vent made by the appointment of Thomas Hill Mayor 1484 who gave by his Testament a hundred Marks towards the conveyance of water to this place it was begun by his Executors in the year 1491 and finished of his goods whatsoever it cost On the East side of this Bridge Ward have ye the fair Parish Church of Saint Magnus in the which Church have been buried many men of good repute whose Monuments are now for the most part defaced Among others Sir Richard Morgan chief Justice of the Common-Pleas and Morris Griffith Bishop of Rochester both born in Wales about the year 1556. Then is the Parish Church of St. Margarets Fish-shreet Hill a proper Church but Monument it hath none of any note Up higher on this Hill is the Parish Church of St. Leonard Milk-Church so termed of one VVilliam Melker an especial builder thereof but commonly called Saint Leonards East-cheap because it standeth at East-cheap coâ—ner This Church and from thence into little East-cheap to the East end of the said Church is of the Bridge
Christ our Saviour and called upon the Devil to help and deliver him such was the end of this deceiver a man of an evil life a secret murtherer a filthy fornicator a keepâ—r oâ— Concubines and amongst other his detestable facts a false accuser of his elder Brother who had in his youth brought him up in learning and done many things for his preferment In the year 1271. a great part of the Church of Bow fell down and slew many people men and women In the year 1284 the thirteenth of Edward the first Lawrence Ducket Goldsmith having grievously wounded one Ralph Crepin in West Cheap fled into Bow-Church into the which in the night time entred certain evil persons friends unto the said Ralph and slew the said Laurence lying in the Steeple and then hanged him up placing him so by the Window as if he had hanged himself and so was it found by Inquisition for the which fact Lawrence Ducket being drawn by the feet was buried in a ditch without the City but shortly after by relation of a Boy who lay with the said Lawrence at the time of his death and had hid him there for fear the truth of the matter was disclosed for the which cause Iordan Good-Cheape Ralph Crepin Gilbert Clarke and Ieffrey Clarke were attainted and a certain Woman named Alice that was chief causer of the said mischief was burned and to the number of sixteen men were drawn and hanged besides others that being richer after long imprisonment were hanged by the purse The Church was interdicted the Doors and Windows were stopped up with Thorns for a while but Lawrence was taken up and honestly buried in the Church-yard afterwards The Parish-Church of St. Mary Bow by meanes of incroachment and building of Houses wanting room in their Church-yard for burial of the Dead Iohn Rotham or Rodham Citizen and Taylor by his Testament dated the year 1465. gave to the Parson and Church-wardens a certain Garden in Hosier-lane to be a Church-yard which so continued near a hundred years but now is builded on and is a private mans house The old Steeple of this Church was by little and little re-edified and new builded up at the least so much as was fallen down many men giving sums of money to the furtherance thereof so that at length to wit in the year 1469 it was ordained by a Common Councel that the Bow Bell should be nightly rung at nine of the Clock Shortly after Iohn Donne Mercer by his Testament dated 1472 according to the trust of Reginald Longdon gave to the Parson and Church-wardens of St. Mary Bow two Tenements with the appurtenances since made into one in Hosierlane then so called to the maintenance of Bow Bell the same to be rung as aforesaid and other things to be observed as by the Will appeareth The Arches or Bowes thereupon with the Lanthorns five in number to wit one at each Corner and one on the top in the middle upon the Arches were also afterward finished of Stone brought from Cane in Normandy delivered at the Customers Key for four shillings eight pence the Tun 1515 and 1516 William Copland being Church-warden It is said that this Copland gave the great Bell which made the fifth in the Ring to be rung nightly at nine of the Clock This Bell was first rung as a Knell at the Burial of the same Copland It appeareth that the Lanthorns on the top of this Steeple were meant to have bin glazed and lights in them placed nightly in the Winter whereby Travellers to the City might have the better sight thereof and not to misse of their wayes In this Parish also was a Grammar-School by commandment of King Henry the sixth which School was of old time kept in an house for that purpose prepared in the Church-yard But that School being decayed as others about this City the School-house was let out for Rent in the Reign of Henry the 8th for four shillings the year a Cellar for two shillings the year and two Vaults under the Church for 15 s. both There are Monuments of divers Citizens of note in this Church but most of them much defac'd and mouldred away Without the North side of this Church of St. Mary Bow towards West-Cheape standeth one fair building of Stone called in Record Sildam a shed which greatly darkneth the said Church for by meanes thereof all the Windows and doors on that side are stopped up King Edward the third upon occasion as shall be shewed in the Ward of Cheap caused this side or shed to be made and strongly to be builded of Stone for himself the Queen and other States to stand there to behold the Justings and other shewes at their pleasures And this House for long time after served to that use namely in the Reign of Edward the third and Richard the second but in the year 1410. Henry the fourth in the twelfth of his Reign confirmed the said shed or building to Stephen Spilman William Marchford and John Wattle Mercers by the name of one new Sildain Shed or Building with Shops Cellars and Edifices whatsoever appertaining called Crounsild or Tamersild scituate in the Mercety of West-Cheape and in the Parish of St. Mary de Arcubus in London c. Notwithstanding which grant the Kings of England and other great Estates as well of forraign Countries repairing to this Realm as Inhabitants of the same have usually repaired to this place therein to behold the shewes of this City passing through West-Cheape namely the great Watches accustomed in the night on the Even of St. John Baptist and St. Peter at Midsommer the Examples whereof were over-long to recite wherefore let it suffice briefly to rouch one In the year 1510 on St. Johns Eve at night King Henry the eight came to this place then called the Kings-Head in Cheape in the Livery of a Yeoman of the Gard with an Halberd on his shoulder and there beholding the Watch departed privily when the Watch was done and was not known to any but whom it pleased him But on Saint Peters night next following He and the Queen came Royally riding to the said place and there with their Nobles beheld the Watch of the City and return'd in the morning Of the Sixteenth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of LONDON called Cheape-Ward WE enter now into the Center of the City which is Cheap-Ward taking name of the Market there kept called West Cheaping which Ward as a River as Mr. Stow saith that hath three heads and running along to the uttermost of his bounds issueth out on the sides into little streams so this Ward beginning on the Course of Wallbrook and is not the meanest of the Wards if for no other cause yet because it is nearest to the heart of the City hath his beginning on the East from three places The High street of the Poultrey the lower end of Buckles bury and the nether part of the Venell or entry into Scalding Alley
honour of the City and had Licence also to take up two hundred Fodder of Lead for the building thereof of certain Conduits and a common Granary This Crosse was then curiously wrought at the Charges of divers Citizens Iohn Fisher Mercer gave six hundred Marks towards it the same was begun to be set up 1484 and finished 1486 the second of Henry the seventh It was after gilt over in the year 1522 against the comming in of Charles the fifth Emperor In the year 1553 against the Coronation of Queen Anne New burnished against the Coronation of Edward the sixth And again new guilt 1554 against the comming in of King Philip. Since which time the said Crosse having bin presented by divers Juries or Quests of Wardmote to stand in the high-way to the let of carriages as they alledged but could not have it removed it followed that in the year 1581 the twenty one of Iune in the night the lowest Images round about the said Crosse being of Christ his Resurrection of the Virgin Mary King Edward the Confessor and such like were broken and defaced Proclamation was made that who so would discover the doers should have forty Crowns but nothing came to light the Image of the blessed Virgin at that time was robbed of her Son and her Arms broken by which she stayed him on her knees her whole body was also haled with Ropes and left likely to fall but in the year 1595. was again fastened and repaired and in the year next following a new mis-shapen Son as born out of time all naked was laid in her Arms the other Images remaining broke as afore But on the East side of the same Crosse the steps being taken thence under the Image of Christs Resurrection defaced was set up a curious wrought Tabernacle of gray Marble and in the same an Alabaster Image of Diana and water conveyed from the Thames prilling from her naked Brest for a time but now decayed In the year 1599 the Timber of the Crosse at the top being rotted within the Lead the Arms thereof bending were feared to have fallen to the harming of some people and therefore the whole Body of the Crosse was seasfolded about and the top thereof taken down meaning in place thereof to have set up a Pyramis but some of her Majesties honourable Councellors directed their Letters to Sir Nicholas Mosley then Maior by her Highnesse express Commandment concerning the Crosse forthwith to be repaired and placed again as it formerly stood c. Notwithstanding the said Crosse stood he adless more then a year after whereupon the said Councellors in great number meaning not any longer to permit the continuance of such a contempt wrote to William Rider then Maior requiring him by vertue of her Highness said former direction and Commandement without any further delay to accomplish her Majesties most princely care therein respecting especially the Antiquity and continuance of that Monument and ancient Ensign of Christianity c. dared the four and twentieth of December 1600. After this a Crosse of Timber was framed set up covered with Lead and gilded the Body of the Crosse downward cleansed of dust the Scaffold cartyed thence About twelve nights following the Image of our Lady was again defaced by plucking off her Crown and almost her head taking from her her naked Child and stabbing her in the Brest But in the year 1644 during the Reign of the long Parliament the said Crosse by an Ordinance thereof was utterly demolished and while the thing was a doing there was a noyse of Trumpets blew all the while Upon the utter demolition of this so ancient and visible a Monument or Ornament of the City of London as all Forrainers esteemed it it fortuned that there was another new one popp'd up in Cheap-side hard by the Standard viz. a high square Table of Stone left in Legacy by one Russel a Porter and well-minded man with this Distichengraven God blesse the Porter who great pains doth take Rest here and welcome when thy back doth ake Thus much for the Crosse in West-cheape Then at the West end of West-Cheap-street was sometimes a Crosse of Stone called the Old Crosse. Ralph Higden in his Polychronicon saith that Walter Stapleton Bishop of Exceter Treasurer to Edward the second was by the Burgesses of London beheaded at this Crosse then called the Standard without the North door of St. Pauls Church and so it is noted in other Writers that then lived This old Crosse stood and remained at the East end of the Parish Church called St. Michael in the corner by Pauls Gate near to the North end of the old Exchange till the year 1390 the thirteenth of Richard the second in place of which old Crosse then taken down the said Church of St. Michael was enlarged and also a fair Water-Conduit builded about the ninth of Henry the sixth In the Reign of Edward the third divers Justings were made in this street betwixt Sopers Lane and the greâ—â— Crosse namely one in the year 1331 about the one and twentieth of September as 't is obserted by divers Writers of that time In the middle of the City of London say they in a Street called Cheap the Stone paâ—ement being covered with sand that the Horses might not slide when they strongly set their feet to the ground the King held a Tournement three daies together with the Nobility valiant men of the Realm and others some strange Knights And to the end the beholders might with the better ease see the same there was a wooden Scaffold erected crosse the street like unto a Tower wherein Queen Philip and many other Ladies richly attired and assembled from all parts of the Realm did stand to behold the Justs but the higher frame in which the Ladies were placed brake in sunder whereby they were with some shame forced to fall down by reason whereof the Knights and such as were underneath were grievously hurt wherefore the Queen took great care to save the Carpenters from punishment and through her prayers which she made upon her Kneeâ— pacified the King and Councel and thereby purchased great love of the people After which time the King caused a shed to be strongly made of Stone for himself the Queen and other States to stand on and there to behold the Justings and other shewes at their pleasure by the Church of St. Mary Bow as is shewed in Cordwayner-street Ward Thus much for the High street of Cheap Now of the North side of Cheap street and Ward beginning at the great Conduit and by St. Mary Cole Church where we left Next thereunto Westward is the Mercers Chappel sometime an Hospital entituled of St. Thomas of Acon or Acars for a Master and Brethren Militia Hospitalis c saith the Record of Edward the third the fourteenth year it was founded by Thomas Fitz Theobald de Heili and Agnes his Wife sister to Thomas Becket in the Reign of Henry the second they gave to the
Reign gave the Office of being Porter or Keeper thereof unto John Stent for terme of his life by the name of his principal Pallace in the Old Jewry This was called the Old Wardrobe but of latter time the outward Strone-Wall hath bin by little and little taken down and divers fair Houses builded thereupon even round about Now or the North side of this Lothbury beginning again at the East end thereof upon the Water-Course of Wallbrook have ye a proper Parish Church called St. Margaret which was newly re-edified and builded about the year 1440. By the West end of this Parish-Church have ye a fair Warter-Conduit builded at the Charges of the City in the year 1546. Next is the Founders Hall a hansom House and so to the South-West corner of Basing-hall-street have ye fair and large Houses for Marchants namely the Corner-house at the end of Basings-Hall-street an old peece of work builded of Stone sometime belonging to a certain Jew named Mansere the Sonne of Aaron the Sonne of Coke the Jew the seventh of Edward the first since to Rahere Sopers-Lane then to Simon Francis Thomas Bradbury Mercer kept his Majoralty there deceased 1509. part of this House hath bin lately imployed as a Market-house for the sale of Woollen Bayes Watmoles Flanels and such like On this North side against the Old Iewry is Colemanstreet so called of Coleman the first builder and owner thereof is also of Cole-Church or Coleman-Church against the great Conduit in Cheape This is a fair and large street on both sides builded with divers fair Houses besides Allies with small Tenements in great number on the East side of this street almost at the North end thereof is the Armorers-Hall which Company of Armorers were made a Fraternity of Guild of St. George with a Chantry in the Chappel of St. Thomas in Pauls Church in the first of Henry the sixth also on the same side is Kings Allâ—y and Love-lane both containing many Tenements And on the West side towards the South end is the Parish Church of St. Stephen wherein the Monuments are defaced This Church was sometime a Synagogue of the Jews then a Parish Church then a Chappel to Saint Olaves in the Jewry until the seventh of Edward the fourth and was then incorporated a Parish Church Of the Eighteenth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Basings-Hall-Ward THe next adjoyning to Coleman-street-Ward on the West side thereof is Bassings-Hall-VVard a small thing and consisteth of one street called Basings-Hall-street of Basings-Hall the most principal House whereof the Ward taketh name it beginneth in the South by the late spoken Market House called the Bay Hall which is the last of Coleman-street-VVard This street runneth from thence North down to London-Wall and some distance both East and West against the said Hall And this is the bounds of Basings-Hall-VVard Amongst divers fair Houses for Marchants have ye three Halls of Companies namely the Masons Hall for the first but of what Antiquity that Company is I have not read The next is the Weavers Hall which Company hath bin of great Antiquity in this City as appeareth by a Charter of Henry the second in these words Rex omnibus ad Quos c. to be englished thus Henry King of England Duke of Normandy and of Guyan Earl of Anjou to the Bishop Justices Sheriffs Barons Ministers and all his true Lieges of London sendeth greeting Know ye that we have granted to the Weavers in London their Guild with all the Freedoms and Customs that they had in the time of King Henry my Grandfather so that they intermit none but within the City of their Craft but he be of their Guild neither in Southwark or other places pertaining to London otherwise than it was done in the time of King Henry my Grand-father wherefore I will and straightly command that over all lawfully they may treat and have all aforesaid as well in peace free worshipful and wholly as they had it ftreer better worshipfuller and whollier than in the time of King Henry my Grand-father so that they yield yearly to me two Marks of Gold at the feast of St. Michael And I forbid that any man to them do any Unright or Disease upon pain of ten pound c. Lower down is the Girdlers Hall and this is all touching the East side of this Ward On the West side almost at the South end thereof is Bakewell-Hall corruptly called Blackwell-Hall concerning the Original whereof I have heard divers Opinious which I over-passe as Fables without colour of truth for though the same seemed a Building of great Antiquity yet in mine Opinion the Foundation thereof was first laid since the Conquest of VVilliam Duke of Normandy for the same was builded upon Vaults of Stone which Stone was brought from Cane in Normandy The like of that in Pauls Church builded by Mauritius and his Successors Bishops of London but that this House hath bin a Temple or Jewish Synagogue as some have fantisied I allow not seeing that it had no such form of roundness or other likeness neither had it the form of a Church for the Assembly of Christians which are builded East and West but contrariwise the same was builded North and South and in the form of a Noblemans House and therefore the best Opinion in my judgement is that it was of old time belonging to the Family of the Bassings which was in this Realm a name of great Antiquity and Renown and that it beares also the name of that Family and was called therefore Basings-Haugh or Hall Now how Bakewell-hall took that name is another Question For which I read That Thomas Bakewel dwelled in this House in the 36. of Edward the 3d and that in the 20. of Richard the 2d the said King for the sum of 50. pounds which the Mayor and the Communalty had paid into the Hanapar granted Licence so much as was in him to Iohn Frosh William Parker and Stephen Spilman Citizens and Mercers that they the said Messuage called Bakewell-hall and one Garden with the appurtenances in the Parish of St. Michael of Bassings-Haugh and of St. Lawrence in the Jewry of London and one Messuage two Shops and one Garden in the said Parish of St. Michael which they held of the King in Burgage might give and assign to the Mayor and Communalty for ever This Bakewell-Hall thus established hath bin long since imployed as a weekly Market-place for all sorts of Woollen Clothes broad and narrow brought from all parts of this Realm there to be sold. In the 21. of Richard the second Richard Whittington Mayor and in the 22 Drew Barringtine being Mayor it was decreed that no Forraign or stranger should sell any Woollen-Cloth but in Bakewell-hall upon pain of forfeiture thereof This House of late years growing ruinous and in danger of falling Richard May Merchant-Taylor at his decease gave towards the new building of the outward part thereof 300l upon condition
of Sion-Colledge And Almes-houses for twenty poor people ten men and ten women This was done by the especiall care and paines of Mr. Iohn Simson Rector of St. Olaves Hart-Street London one of the Executors of the last Will and Testament of Mr. Thomas White Doctor in Divinity Vicar of S. Dunstans in the West and one of the Canons Residentiary of S. Pauls Church London which ore-named Thomas White besides sundry sums of money and great yearly Revenues given by him to pious and Charitable uses in divers places gave three thousand pound to purchase and build the foresaid Colledge for the use of the Clergy and Almes-houses for the twenty poor people aforesaid He gave also unto the said Colledge and Almes-houses a hundred sixty pound per annum for ever whereof there is a hundred twenty pound yearly allowed for the maintenance of the poor Almes-men and women And forty pound yearly for four dinners for the Clergy who are to have four Latine Sermons in the year one every quarter and upon these dayes are to dine together in the Colledge In the same Colledge the forenamed Iohn Simson did in his life time at his own proper Costs and Charges build a very faire and spacious Library containing a hundred twenty one foot in length within the Walls and above twenty five foot in breadth And hath furnished it with Wainscot Stalls Desks Seats and other Necessary and usefull Ornaments befitting the place To this Library there have been already divers bountifull and well disposed Benefactors who have given large sums of money towards the furnishing of it with Books Then is there the Parish Church of Saint Alphage The principall I le of this Church towards the North was pulled down and a frame of four houses set up in the place the other part from the Steeple upward was converted into a Parish Church of S. Alphage and the Parish Church which stood near unto the Wall of the City by Cripplegate was pulled down the plot thereof made a Carpenters Yard with Saw-pits The Hospitall it self the Prior and Canons house with other Lodgings were made a dwelling house the Church-Yard is a Garden plot and a faire Gallery on the Cloyster the Lodgins for the poor are translated into stabling for horses Now we will return to Milk-Street so call'd of Milke sold there at the beginning In this Milk-Street is a small Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdelen which hath of late years been repaired William Brown Mayor 1513. gave to this Church fourty pounds and was buried there Then Next is Wood-Street by what reason so called I know not True it is that of old time according to a Decree made in the reign of Richard the first the houses of London were builded of Stone for defence of fire which kind of building was used for two hundred years or more but of latter time for the winning of ground taken down and houses of Timber were set up in their place It seemeth therefore that this Street hath been of the latter building all of timber for scarce one house of stone hath been known there and therefore called Wood-Street otherwise it might take the name of some builder or owner thereof On the East side of this Street is one of the Prison-houses pertaining to the Sheriffs of London and is called the Compter in Wood-Street which was prepared to be a prison-house in the year 1555. And on the Eve of S. Michael the Archangell the prisoners that lay in the Compter in Bread-Street were removed to this Compter in Wood-Street Beneath this Compter in Lad-lane or Ladle Hall for so I find it of Record in the parish of Saint Michaell Wood-Street and Beneath that is Love lane so called of wantons By this lane is the Ancient parish Church of S. Albans One note of the great Antiquity of it is the name by which it was at first dedicated to St. Albanus the first Martyr of England Another Character of the Antiquity of it is to be seen in the manner of the turning of the Arches in the windows and heads of the Pillars A third Note appears in the Roman Bricks here and there here and there inlayed amongst the stones of the building Very probable it is that this Church is at least of as ancient a standing as King Aldelstane the Saxon who as the Tradition sayes had his house at the East end of this Church This Kings house having a door also into Adel-Street in this Parish gave name as 't is thought unto the said Adel-Street which in all Evidences to this day is written King Adel-Street One great square Tower of this Kings house seems yet remaining to be seen at the North corner of Love lane as you come from Alderman-bury which Tower is of the very same stone and manner of building with S. Albans Church There is also but without any outward Monument the head of Iames the Fourth King of Scots of that name slain at Flodden field and buried here by this occasion After the Battell the body of the said King being found was closed in â—ead and conveyed from thence to London and so to the Monastery of Sheine in Surrey where it remained for a time in what order I am not certain But since the dissolution of that house in the reign of Edward the Sixth Henry Gray Duke of Suffolk being lodged and keeping house there the same body was to be shew'd so lapped in lead close to the head and body thrown into a waste room amongst the old timber lead other rubble since which time the workmen there for their foolish pleasure hewed off his head and Launcelot Young Master Glasier to Queen Elizabeth feeling a sweet savour to come from thence and seeing the same dried from all moisture and yet the form remaining with the hair of the head and beard red brought it into London to his house in Woodstreet where for a time he kept it for the sweetnesse but in the end caused the Sexton of that Church to bury it amongst other bones taken out of their Charnell c. There are divers Records of a house in Wood-street then called Black Hall but no man at this day can tell thereof On the North side of this Saint Michaels Church is Maiden-lane now so called but of old time Ingene-lane or Inglane In this Lane the Wax-Chaundlers have their Common Hall on the the South side thereof and the Haberdashers have their Hall on the North side at Stayning-lane end This Company of the Haberdashers or Hurrers of old time so called were incorporated a Brotherhood of St. Katherines the twenty sixth of Henry the Sixth and so confirmed by Henry the Seventh the seventeenth of his Reign the Cappers and Hat-Merchants or Hurrers being one Company of Haberdashers Down lower in VVood-street is Silver-street I think of Silver-Smiths dwelling there in which be divers fair houses And on the North side thereof is Monks-well street so called of a well at the North end thereof
is now called Bacon-House because the same was new builded by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal Down on that side by Serjeant Fleet-Woods house Recorder of London who also new builded it to Saint Olaves Church in Silver-Street which is by the North-West End of this Noble-Street Then have ye Maine Street of this Ward which is called Saint Martins lane in cluding Saint Martin on the East side thereof and so down on both the sides to Aldersgate And these be the bounds of this Ward within the Wall and Gate Without the Gate the main Street called Aldersgate-Street runneth up North on the East side to the West end of Hounds-ditch or Barbican-Street a part of which Street is also of this Ward And on the West side to Long-Lane a part whereof is likewise of this Ward Beyond the which Aldersgate is Goswell Street up to the Barrs And on the West side of Hidersgate Street by Saint Buttolphs Church is Briton-Street which runneth West to a Pumpe and then North to the Gate which entreth the Church-Yard sometimes pertaining to the Priory of Saint Bartholomews on the east side on the west side towards St. Bartholomews Spittle to a paire of posts there fixed And these be the bounds of this Aldersgate Ward without The antiquities be these first in Stainâ—ng lane of old time so called as may be supposed of Painter-stainers dwelling there On the East side thereof adjoyning to the Aaberdashers Hall be ten Almes-houses pertaining to the Haberdashers wherein be placed ten Almes people of that Company every of them having Eight pence the peece every Friday for ever by the gift of Thomas Huntlow Haberdasher one of the Sheriffs in the year 1539. Then is the small Parish Church of Saint Mary called Staining because it standeth at the North end of Staining lane Then is Engain lane or Maiden lane and at the North-West Corner thereof the Parish Church of St. John Zachary a fair Church with the Monuments well preserved of Thomas Lichfield who founded a Chancery there in the fourteenth of Edward the second On the East side of this Foster Lane at Engane Lane end is Goldsmiths Hall a proper House but not large and therefore to say that Bartholmew Read Goldsmith Mayor in the year 1502 kept such a feast in this Hall as some have fabuled is far incredible and altogether unpossible considering the smallnesse of the Hall number of the Guests which as they say were more than one hundred persons of great estate But of late years the said Goldsmiths Hall is much enlarged and in a stately and sumptuous manner in so much that it may compare with any other Hall in London Then at the North end of Noble-street is the Parish Church of St. Olave in Silver-street a small thing On the West side of Foster-Lane is the small Parish Church of St. Leonards for them of St. Martins le Grand A number of Tenements being lately builded in place of the great Collegiate Church of St. Martin that Parish is mightily encreased Then in Pope-lane so called of one Pope that was owner thereof On the North side is the Parish Church of Saint Anne in the Willowes so called I know not upon what occasion but some say of Willowes growing thereabouts but now there is no such void place for Willowes to grow more than the Church-yard wherein do grow some high Ash-trees to this day Then in St. Martins Lane was of old time a fair and large Colledge of a Dean and Secular Canons or Priests and was called Saint Martins le grand founded by Ingelricus and Edwardus his Brother in the year of Christ 1056 and confirmed by William the Conqueror as appeareth by his Charter dated 1068. This Colledge claimed great Priviledges of Sanctuary and otherwise as appeareth in a Book written by a Notary of that House about the year 1442 the nineteenth of Henry the sixth wherein amongst other things is set down and declared that on the first of September in the year aforesaid a Souldier prisoner in Newgate as he was led by an Officer towards the Guild-Hall of London there came out of Panyer Alley five of his fellowship and took him from the Officer brought him into Sanctuary at the West door of St. Martins Church and took Grithe of that place But the same day Philip Malpas Robert Marshall then Sheriffs of London with many other entred the said Church and forcibly took out with them the said five men thither fled led them fettered to the Counter and from thence chained by the Necks to Newgate of which violent taking the Dean and Chapter in large manner complained to the King and required him as their Patron to defend their Priviledges like as his Predecessors had done c. All which complaint and suite the Citizens by their Counsel Markham Serjeant at the Law Iohn Carpenter common Clerk of the City and others learnedly answered offering to prove that the said place of St. Martin had no such Immunity or Liberty as was pretended Notwithstanding after long debating of this Controversie by the Kings commandment assent of his Councel in the Starr-Chamber the Chancellour and Treasurer sent a Writ unto the Sheriffs of London charging them to bring the said five persons with the cause of their taking and withholding afore the King in his Chancery on the Vigil of Alhallowes on which day the said Sheriffs with the Recorder and Counsel of the City brought and delivered them accordingly afore the said Lords where the Chancellour after he had declared the Kings Commandement sent them to St. Martins there to abide freely as in a place having Franchises whiles them liked c. Without Aldersgate on the East side of Aldersgate-street is the Cookes Hall which Cooks or Pastlers were admitted to be a Company and to have a Master and Wardens in the two and twentieth of Edward the fourth From thence along unto Houndsditch or Barbican street be many fair Houses on the West side also be the like fair buildings till ye come to Long-Lane and so to Goswell street In Britaine street which took that name of the Duke of Britain Lodging there is one proper Parish Church of St. Buttolph In which Church was sometime a Brotherhood of St. Fabian and Sebastian founded in the year 1377 the fifty one of Edward the third and confirmed by Henry the fourth in the sixth of his Reign Then Henry the sixth in the twenty fourth of his Reign to the honour of the Trinity gave Licence to Dame Joane Astley sometime his Nurse to R. Cawood and T. Smith to found the same a Fraternity perpetually to have a Master and two Custos with Brethren and Sisters This Brotherhood was endowed with Lands more than thirty pounds by the year and was suppressed by Edward the sixth Of the One and Twentieth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Faringdon Ward Intra ON the South side of Aldersgate Ward lyeth Faringdon Ward called
Intra or within for a difference from another Ward of that name which lyeth without the Walls of the City and is therefore called Farringdon Extra These two Wards of old time were but one and had also but one Alderman The whole great Ward of Faringdon both Intra and Extra took name of W. Farrendon Goldsmith Alderman of that Ward and one of the Sheriffs of London in the year 1281 the ninth of Edward the first He purchased the Aldermanry of this Ward as by the Abstract of Deeds which are yet extant may appear At the South-West corner of Wood-street is the Parish Church of St Peter the Apostle by the said Crosse a proper Church John Sha Goldsmith Mayor deceased 1503 appointed by his Testament the said Church and Steeple to be new builded of his goods with a flat roof Notwithstanding Tho. Wood Goldsmith one of the Sheriffs 1491 is accounted a principal Benefactor because the roof of the middle Isle is supported by Images of Woodmen thought to be at his charge The long Shop or Shed encroaching on the High-street before this Church Wall was licenced to be made in the year 1401 yielding to the Chamber of London three shillings four pence yearly for the time Also the same Shop was letten by the Parish for three pounds at the most many years since Then is Guthuruns Lane so called of Guthurun sometime owner thereof the Inhabitants of this Lane of old time were Gold-beaters as doth appear by Records in the Exchequer For the Easterling money was appointed to be made of fine Silver such as men made into foyle and was commonly called Silver of Guâ—hrons Lane c. The Imbroyderers Hall is in this Lane Iohn Throwstone Imbroyderer then Goldsmith Sheriff deceasing 1519. gave forty pound towards the purchase of this Hall Hugon Lane on the East side and Key Lane called of one Kery on the West Then in the High street on the same North side is the Sadlers Hall and then Foster-Lane so called of Saint Fosters a fair Church lately new builded Henry Coote Goldsmith one of the Sheriffs deceased 1509 builded St. Dunstans Chappel there Iohn Throwstone one of the Sheriffs gave to the building thereof one hundred pounds by his Testament John Brown Sergeant-painter Alderman deceased 1532 was a great Benefactor and was there buried William Trist Selerar to the King 1425. John Standelf Goldsmiths lye buried there Richard Galder 1544 Agnes Wife to William Milbourne Chamberlain of London 1500. In this West side is the Barber Chirurgions Hall This Company was Incorporated by means of Thomas Morestead Esquire one of the Sheriffs of London a thousand four hundâ—ed thirty six Chirurgion to the Kings of England Henry the fourth fifth and sixth He deceased 1450. Then Jaques Fries Physitian to Edward the fourth and William Hobbs Physician and Chirurgion to the same Kings Body continuing the Suite the full terme of twenty years Edward the fourth in the second of his Reign and Richard Duke of Glocester became Founders of the same Corporation in the Parish of Saint Cosme and Damiane The first assembling of that Mystery was by Roger Strippe William Hobbs Thomas Goddard and Richard Kent since the which time they builded their Hall in that street c. At the North corner of this street on the same side was sometime an Hermitage or Chappel of Saint James called in the Wall near Creplegate it belonged to the Abbey and Covent of Garadon as appeareth by a Record the seven and twentieth of Edward the first and also the fiftieth of Edward the third William de Lions was Hermit there and the Abbot and Convent of Garadon found two Chaplains Cestercâ—an Monkes of their House in this Hermitage one of them for Aymor de Valence Earl of Pembrooke and Mary de Saint Paul his Countesse Of these Monks and of a Well pertaining to them the street took that name and is called Monkes-Well street This Hermitage with the appurrenances was in the Reign of Edward the sixth purchased from the said King by W. Lambe one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Chappel Citizen and Cloth-worker of London He deceased in the year 1577 and then gave it to the Cloth-workers of London with other Tenements to the value of fifty pounds the year to the intent they shall hire a Minister to say Divine Service there Again to the High street of Cheap from Foster Lane end to St. Martins and by that Lane to the Shambles or Flesh-markâ—t on the North side whereof is Pentecost Lane containing divers Slaughter-houses for the Butchers Then was there of old time a hansome Parish Church of Saint Nicholas whereof the said Flesh-market took the name and was called Saint Nicholas Shambles This Church with the Tenements and Ornaments was by Henry the eighth given to the Mayor and Communalty of the City towards the maintenance of the New Parish Church then to be erected in the late dissolved Church of the Gray Fryers so was this Church dissolved and pulled down in place whereof and of the Church-yard many fair Houses are now builded in a Court with a Well in the middest whereof the Church stood Then is Stinking Lane formerly so called or Chick Lane at the East end of the Gray Fryers Church it is now kept clean and free from annoyance and called by the name of Butchers Hall Lane for there is the Butchers Hall In the third of Richard the second motion was made that no Butcher should kill any flesh within London but at Knightsbridge or such like distant place from the Walls of the City Then is there the late dissolved Church of Gray Fryars the Originall whereof was thus In the year 1224 being the 8th year of the Reign of King Henry the 3d there came out of Italy nine Fryers of the order of the Franciscans or Frior Minors five whereof were Priests and the other four Lay-men the Priests placed themselves at Canterbury in Kent but the other four came to London and were lodged for some short while among the preaching Fryers who lived then in Oldburn now Holborne Afterwards they obtained to be placed in Cornhil London man House belonging to one Iohn Travers who was then one of the Sheriffs of London in the same year 1224 in which House they made themselves Cells and inhabited there for a certain time till their number so encreased and the Citizens devotion grew to be so great that within few years after they were thence removed by the means of one Iohn Ewin Mercet who purchased a void plot of ground near to St. Nicholas Shambles where to erect an House for the said Fryers Divers Citizens seemed herein to joyn with the said Iohn Ewin and erected there very beautiful Buildings upon the same ground so formerly purchased by John Ewin and a great part builded at his own Charge which he appropriated to the Communalty of London and then entred into the same Order of Friers as a Lay-Brother himself This whole Church contained in length
are divers hansom Monuments and Epitaphs On the South side of this street is the turning into the Black Fryers which Order sometime had their Houses in Old-born where they remained for the space of five and fifty years and then in the year 1276. Gregory Rocksley Mayor and the Barons of this City granted and gave to Robert Kilwarby Arch Bishop of Canterbury two Lanes or wayes next the street of Baynards Castle and also the Tower of Mount fitchet to be destroyed in place of which the said Robert builded the late new Church of the Black-Fryers and placed them therein King Edward the first and Eleanor his Wife were great Benefactors thereunto this was a large Church and richly furnished with Ornaments wherein divers Parliaments and other great Meetings have been holden namely in the year 1450 the twenty eighth of Henry the sixth a Parliament was begun at VVestminster and adjourned to the Black Fryers in London and from thence to Leicester In the year one thousand five hundred twenty two the Emperor Charls the fifth was lodged there In the year one thousand five hundred twenty foure the fifteenth of April a Parliament was begun at the Black Fryers wherein was demanded a Subsidy of 800000. pounds to be raised of Goods and Lands four shillings in every pound and in the end was granted two shillings of the pound of their Goods and Lands that were worth twenty pound or might dispend twenty pounds by the year and so upward to be paid in two years This Parliament was adjourned to VVestminster amongst the black Monks and ended in the Kings Palace there the 14th of August at nine of the Clock in the night and was therefore called the Black Parliament The same year in the moneth of October began a Parliament in the Black Fryers in the which Cardinal VVoolsey was condemned in the premunire this House valued at a hundred and four pound fifteen shillings five pence was surrendred the 12th of November the 30th of Henry the 8th Now to turn again to the Black Fryers through Bowyer Rowe Ave Mary Lane and Pater Noster Rowe to the Church of St. Michael ad Bladum or at the Corn corruptly at the Querne so called because in place thereof was sometime a Corn-Market stretching up West to the Shambles It seemeth that this Church was new builded about the Reign of Edward the third Thomas Newton first Parson there was buried in the Quire in the year 1461. At the East end of this Church stood a Crosse called the old Crosse in West Cheap which was taken down in the year 1390. since the which time the said Parish Church was also taken down but new builded and enlarged in the year 1430. the eighth of Henry the sixth VVilliam Eastfield Mayor and the Communalty granted of the common ground of the City three foot and an half in breadth on the North part and four foot in breadth toward the East for the inlarging thereof At the West end of this Parish Church is a small passage for people on foot thorow the same Church and West from the said Church some distance is another passage out of Pater Noster Rowe and is called of such a signe Panyer Alley which commeth out into the North over against Saint Martins Lane Next is Ivy Lane so called of Ivy growing on the Walls of the Prebends Houses but now the Lane is replenished on both the sides with fair Houses and diâ—ers Offices have bin there kept by Registers namely for the Prerogative Court of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury the Probate of Wills which is now removed into Warwick lane and also for the Lord Treasurers Remembrance of the Exchequer c. This Lane runneth North to the Westend of St. Nicholas Shambles of old time there was one great House sometimes belonging to the Earls of Britaâ—n since that to the Lovels and was called Lovels Inne Then is Eldenesse Lane which stretcheth North to the high street of Newgate Market the same is now called Warwick Lane of an ancient House there builded by an Earl of Warwick and was since called Warwick Inne It is in Record called a Messuage in Eldenesse lane in the Parish of St. Sepulchre the twenty eighth of Henry the sixth Cicilie Dutchesse of VVarwick possessed it Now again from the Conduit by Pauls Gate on the North side is a large street running West to Newgate the first part whereof from the Conduit to the Shambles of selling Bladders there called Bladder-street then behind the Butchers Shops be now divers Slaughter-houses inward and Tipling-houses outward This is called Mount Goddard-street of the Tipling-houses there and the Goddards mounting from the Tap to the Table from the Table to the Mouth and sometimes over the Head This street goeth up to the North end of Ivy lane before this Mount-goddard street Stall-boards were of old time set up by the Butchers to shew and to sell their Flesh meat upon over the which Stall-Boards they first builded sheds to keep off the Weather but since that incroaching by little and little they have made their Stall-boards and sheds fair Houses meet for the principal Shambles Next is Newgate Market first of Corn and Meale and then of other victuals which stretcheth almost to Eldenese-Lane a fair new and strong Frame of Timber covered with Lead was therefore set up at the Charges of the City near to the West Corner of St. Nicholas Shambles for the meal to be weighed in the first of Edward the sixth Sir Iohn Gresham being then Mayor On this side the North Corner of Eldenese Lane stood sometime a proper Parish-Church of St. Ewine as is before said given by Henry the eighth towards the erecting of Christs Church It was taken down and in place thereof a fair strong Frame of Timber erected wherein dwell men of divers Trades And from this Frame to Newgaete is all of this Ward and so an end thereof Of the two and Twentieth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Bread-street Ward THen is Bread-street it self so called of Bread in old time there sold for it appeareth by Records that in the year 1302 which was the thirty of Edward the first the Bakers of London were bounden to sell no Bread in their Shops or Houses but in the Market and that they should have four Hall-motes in the year at four several Terms to determine of enormities belonging to the said Company This street giving the name to the whole Ward beginneth in West Cheap almost by the Standard and runneth down South through or thwart Wathling-street to Knight Riders-street aforesaid where it endeth This Bread-street is wholly on both sides of this Ward out of the which street on the East side is Basing Lane a piece whereof to wit to and over against the back gate of the Red Lion in Wathling-street is of this Bread-street Ward Then is Fryday-street beginning also in West Cheap and runneth down South through Wathling-street to Knight-Riders street or
to the roof of Timber well and surely covered with Lead But after an hundred and threescore years King Henry the third subverted this Fabrick of King Edwards and built from the very foundation a new Church of very rare Workmanship supported with sundry rowes of Marble Pillars and the roofe covered over with sheets of Lead a piece of work that cost fifty years labour in building which Church the Abbots enlarged very much toward the West end and King Henry the seventh for the burial of himself and his Children adjoyned thereto in the East end a Chappel of admirable artificial elegancy The Wonder of the Worlde as Leland calleth it for a man would say that all the curious and exquisite work that can be devised is there compacted wherein is to be seen his own most stately magnificial Monument all of solid and massâ—e Copper This Church when the Monks were driven thence from time to time was altered to and fro with sundry changes First of all it had a Dean and Prebâ—ndaries soon after one Bishop and no more namely T. Thurlbey who having wasted the Church Patrimony surrendred it to the spoil of Courtiers and shortly after were the Monks with their Abbot â—et in possession again by Queen Mary and when they also within a while after were by authority of Parliament cast out Queen Elizabeth converted it into a Collegiate Church or rather into a Seminary and Nurse-Garden of the Church appointing twelve Prebendaries there and as many old Souldiers past service for Alms-men fourty Schollars who in their due time are preferred to the Universities and from thence sent forth into the Church and Common-weale c. Over these they placed D. Bâ—ll Dean whose Successor was Gabriel Goodman a right good man indeed and of singular integrity and an especial Patron of Literature Within this Church are intombed that I may note them according to their dignity and time wherein they died Sebert the first of that name and first Christian King of the East-Saxons Harold the bastard Son of Canutus the Dane King of England Edward King and Confessour with his Wife Edâ—th Maud Wife to King Henry the first the Daughter of Malcolme King of Scots King Henry the third and his Son King Edward the first with Eleanor his Wife Daughter to Ferdinando the first King of Castile and of Leon King Edward the third and Philippa of Henault his Wife King Richard the second and his Wife Anne Sister to VVencelaus the Emperour King Henry the fifth with Katherine his Wife Daughter to Charles the sixth King of France Anne Wife to King Richard the third Daughter to Richard Nevil Earl of VVarwick King Henry the seaventh with his Wife Elizabeth Daughter to Kiâ—g Edward the fourth and his Mother Margaret Countesse of Richmond King Edward the sixth Anne of Cleave the fourth Wife of King Henry the eighth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Prince Henry eldest Son of King Iames the sixth of Scotland and first of England who lies there also interred with Queen Anne his Wife and lastly the first male born of Charles the first dying an Infant Of Dukes and Earls Degree there lie here buried Edmund Earl of Lancaster second Son of King Henry the third and his Wife Aveline de Fortibus Countesse of Albemarle William and Audomar of Valence of the Family of Lusignian Earls of Pembrooke Alphonsus Iohn and other Children of King Edward the first Iohn of Eltham Earl of Cornwall Son to King Edward the second Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester the youngest Son of King Edward the third with other of his Children Eleanor Daughter and Heir of Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and of Essex Wife to Thomas of VVoodstock the young Daughter of Edward the fourth and King Henry the seventh Henry a Child two Months old Son oâ— King Henry the eighth Sophia the Daughter of King Iames who died as it were in the very first day-dawning of her age Phillâ—ppa Mohun Dutches of Yorke Robert of Hexault in right of his Wife Lord Bourchier Anne the young Daughter and Heir of Iohn Mowbray Duke of Norfolk promised in marriage unto Richard Duke of York younger Son to K. Edward the 4th Sir Giles Daubeny Lord Chamberlain to King Henry the 7th and his Wife of the house of the Arundels in Cornwal I. Viscount VVells Farnces Brandon Dutchess of Suffolk Marry her Daughter Margaret Douglasse Countesse of Lennox Grandmother to Iames King of great Britain with Charles her Sonne VVinifred Bruges Marchionesse of Vâ—inchestèr Anne Stanhope Dutchess of Sommerset and Iane her Daughter Anne Cecill Countesse of Oxford Daughter to the Lord Burleigh Lord High Treasure of England with Mildred Burghley her Mother Elizabeth Berkeley Countesse of Ormond â—Frances Sidney Countess of Sussex Iames Butler Vicount Thurles Son and Heir to the Earl of Ormond Besides these Humphrey Lord Bourchier of Cromwall Sir Humphrey Bourchier Son and Heir to the Lord Bourchier of Beruers both slain at Bernet field Sir Nicholas Carew Baronesse Powisse T. Lord Wentworth Thomas Lord Wharton John Lord Russel Sir T. Bromley Lord Chancellour of England Douglas Howard Daughter and Heir general of H. Vicount Howard of Bindon Wife to Sir Arthur Gorges Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Edward Earl of Rutland Wife to William Cecill Sir John Puckering Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England Francis Howard Countesse of Hertford Henry and George Cary the Father and Son Barons of Hundsdon both Lords Chamberlains to Queen Elizabeth the Heart of Anne Sophia the tender Daughter of Christopher Harley Count Beaumont Embassador for the King of France in England bestowed within a small gilt Urne over a Pyramid Sir Charles Blunt Earl of Devonshire Lord Livetenant General of Ireland And whom in no wise we must forget the Prince of English Poets Geoffrey Chaucer as also he that for pregnant wit and an excellent gift in Poetry of all English Poets came nearest unto him Edmund Spencer William Cambden Clarencieux King of Arms Causabon the greaâ— French Writer Michael Drayton Then there is George Villers Duke Marquiss and Earl of Buckingham favorite to King James and Charles the first The late Earl of Essex with divers other during the Reign of the long Parliament There was also another Colledge or Free-Chappel hard by consisting of a Dean and twelve Chanons Dedicated to St. Stephen which King Edward the third in his princely Magnificence repaired with curious Workmanship and endowed with fair possessions so as he may seem to have built it new the time as he had with his Victories over-run and subdued all France recalling to mind as we read the Charter of the Foundation and pondering in a due weighty devout consideration the exceeding benefits of Christ whereby of his own sweet mercy and pitty he preventeth us in all occasions delivering us although without desert from sundry pâ—ills and defending us gloriously with his powerful right Hand against the violent assaults of our adversaries with victorious successes and in other